Ankylosis Definition
aŋkəlōsis
ankyloses
noun
A stiffening of a joint, caused by the pathological joining of bones or fibrous parts, as from an injury.
Webster's New World
A joining of bones or fibrous parts into a single part.
Webster's New World
The consolidation of bones or their parts to form a single unit.
American Heritage Medicine
The stiffening and immobility of a joint as the result of disease, trauma, surgery, or abnormal bone fusion.
American Heritage Medicine
(anatomy) The growing together of bones to form a single unit.
Wiktionary
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Origin of Ankylosis
From Ancient Greek ἀγκύλωσις (ankulōsis, “a stiffening of the joints”), from ἀγκυλόειν (ankuloein, “to crook, bend”), from ἀγκύλος (ankulos, “bent, or crooked”).
From Wiktionary
New Latin from Greek ankulōsis stiffening of the joints from ankuloun to crook, bend from ankulos crooked, bent
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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