While there are numerous variations, stockless anchors consist of a set of heavy flukes connected by a pivot or ball and socket joint to a shank.

Loud's pen had a small rotating steel ball, held in place by a socket.

If the ball socket were too tight, the ink did not reach the paper.

Bíró fitted this pen with a tiny ball in its tip that was free to turn in a socket.

The giraffe's neck vertebrae have ball and socket joints.

The wires are suspended from a ' string ' of identical disc-shaped insulators which attach to each other with metal clevis pin or ball and socket links.

A trackball is a pointing device consisting of a ball housed in a socket containing sensors to detect rotation of the ball about two axes, similar to an upside-down mouse: as the user rolls the ball with a thumb, fingers, or palm the pointer on the screen will also move.

A trackball is a pointing device consisting of a ball held by a socket containing sensors to detect a rotation of the ball about two axes — like an upside-down mouse with an exposed protruding ball.

Two general types of ground glass joints are fairly commonly used: joints that are slightly conically-tapered and ball and socket joints ( sometimes called spherical joints ).

Here, the inner joint is a ball and the outer joint is a socket, both having holes leading to the interior of their respective tube ends to which they are fused.

Ground glass ball ( left ) and socket ( right ) joints.

One unique aspect of gibbon anatomy is that the wrist is composed of a ball and socket joint, allowing for biaxial movement.

The joints between bones permit movement, some allowing a wider range of movement than others, e. g. the ball and socket joint allows a greater range of movement than the pivot joint at the neck.

In many cases the horizontal fracture has resulted in a bottom face that is convex while the upper face of the lower segment is concave, producing what are called " ball and socket " joints.

* spherical rotation e. g. ball and socket joint

As an evolutionary adaptation to this arboreal lifestyle, their wrists are ball and socket joints.

This bone is very thick and strong ( due to the high proportion of cortical bone ), and forms a ball and socket joint at the hip, and a condylar joint at the knee.

Although a biological joint can resemble a man-made joint in being a hinge or a ball and socket, the engineering problems that nature must solve are very different because the joint works within an almost completely solid structure, with no wheels or nuts and bolts.

Legg – Calvé – Perthes syndrome is a form of osteochondritis of the hip joint, where growth / loss of bone mass leads to some degree of collapse of the hip joint and to deformity of the ball of the femur and sometimes the surface of the hip socket.

The lens fibers are linked together via gap junctions and interdigitations of the cells that resemble " ball and socket " forms.

Rockies second baseman Clint Barmes, playing in, made a miraculous over the shoulder diving catch after a long run, and doubled off Albert Pujols, who thought the ball would drop and was nearly at third base, to end the game.

* bump or hip and shoulder tackle is a legal Aussie rules tactic for both dispossession of the player with the ball and also impeding players involved in a contest but not in possession of the ball.

He was injured in the Battle of Trenton with a musket ball to his shoulder.

On second down, he threw a pass intended for Howard in the end zone, but the ball bounced off Howard's shoulder, and a Hail Mary replay was not to be.

However, as the pass was being delivered to Dyson, Jones, who was at the goal line, glanced over his left shoulder and noticed an open Dyson catching the ball.

King William I of the Netherlands had the Butte du Lion erected on the battlefield of Waterloo to commemorate the location where his son, William II of the Netherlands ( the Prince of Orange ), was knocked from his horse by a musket ball to the shoulder and as a tribute to his courage.

Bowlers generally hold their elbows fully extended and rotate the arm vertically about the shoulder joint to impart velocity to the ball, releasing it near the top of the arc.

The leaping player will bring the ball over top of the head, and attempt to touch the back of the neck or in between the shoulder blades with the ball.

However, he was far less effective as a fielder late in his career, especially in one day matches, since a chronic shoulder injury-usually described as the shoulder being " thrown out "-meant that he usually bowled the ball in when fielding, rather than throwing it in, significantly reducing the speed of the return and allowing batsmen easy runs.

Monroe was carried from the field bleeding badly after he was struck in the left shoulder by a musket ball, which severed an artery.

A player in possession of the ball can be hand tackled by being pushed over on the shoulder or back and / or kayak tackled by an opposition member.

The types of pitches thrown showed a smaller effect ; throwing a slider was associated with an 86 % increased chance of elbow injury, while throwing a curve ball was associated with an increase in shoulder pain.

The rotator cuff is a structure composed of tendons that, with associated muscles, holds the ball at the top of the humerus in the glenoid socket and provides mobility and strength to the shoulder joint.

In a typical case of a dislocated shoulder, a strong force that pulls the shoulder outward ( abduction ) or extreme rotation of the joint pops the ball of the humerus out of the shoulder socket.

It is this restricted space between the capsule and ball of the humerus that distinguishes adhesive capsulitis from a less complicated painful, stiff shoulder.

In arthritis of the shoulder, the cartilage of the ball and socket ( glenohumeral joint ) is lost so that bone rubs on bone.

X-rays of the shoulder show loss of the normal space between the ball and socket.

In this operation, a surgeon replaces the shoulder joint with an artificial ball for the top of the humerus and a cap ( glenoid ) for the scapula.

Sadly Rush's last touch of the ball in a Liverpool shirt was when it bounced off his shoulder to set Eric Cantona up for his winning goal.

Substitution as makeshift is when human ingenuity comes into play and a tool is used for its unintended purpose such as a mechanic using a long screw driver to separate a cars control arm from a ball joint instead of using a tuning fork.

The guide arm is articulated in a ball joint such that the arm and ball follow the angle at which the cable extends from the mechanism.

Legg – Calvé – Perthes syndrome, also called Avascular Necrosis of the Femoral Head, is where the ball section of the femur in the hip joint deteriorates following interruption of the blood flow and is the same condition as in humans.

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The glenohumeral joint has been analogously described as a golf ball ( head of the humerus ) sitting on a golf tee ( glenoid fossa ).