chondyle

Noun

condyle (plural condyles)

1. A smooth prominence on a bone where it forms a joint with another bone.
   • Primitively the exoccipitals took but little part in the formation of the occipital condyle, but in many later reptiles they form a large part, as in the Chelonia (Fig. 31 b), or even the whole, as in the Amphisbaenia (Fig. 56 b); or, by the recession of the basioccipital, the double condyles of...1925, Samuel Wendell Williston, “Chapter 1”, in The Osteology of the Reptiles