[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That articulates; that forms a joint with something.

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1808.  Brodie, in Phil. Trans., XCVIII. 306. Half of the articulating surface for receiving the tarsus.

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1835.  Southw. Smith, Philos. Health, I. v. 212. Strong projections of bone, termed articulating processes.

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