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mortise joint   (TTS Sound)

The noun mortise joint has 2 senses

• ankle, ankle joint, mortise joint, articulatio talocruralis -- (a gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus)


• mortise joint, mortise-and-tenon joint -- (a joint made by inserting tenon on one piece into mortise holes in the other)