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  • noun Plural form of symphysis.

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Examples

  • Parts torn asunder, whether nerves, or cartilages, or epiphyses, or parts separated at symphyses, cannot possibly be restored to their former state; but callus is quickly formed in most cases, yet the use of the limb is preserved.

    Instruments Of Reduction 2007

  • While I snapped photos, she removed the pubic symphyses, then took them to find a soaking container.

    Break No Bones Reichs, Kathy 2006

  • In lungfish a synovial joint is found only in the jaw, with most other joints being simpler: symphyses with a cartilaginous region between them.

    Reactions to Kitzmiller decision continue - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • Age was based on the condition of the pubic symphyses, the small surfaces where the pelvic halves meet in front.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • Age was based on the condition of the pubic symphyses, the small surfaces where the pelvic halves meet in front.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • Age was based on the condition of the pubic symphyses, the small surfaces where the pelvic halves meet in front.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • The common iliac arteries giving off the internal iliac branches on the sacro-iliac symphyses; g g, the right and left ureters.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • Then the animal should be pinned out through the legs, the ventral surface uppermost, the skin opened up along the middle line from pelvic girdle to symphyses of jaw; separated from the body wall below by means of the handle of a scalpel, and turned back; and then the abdominal wall should be cut into and two flaps pinned back to expose its contents.

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

  • Each of the under jaws of the fish was furnished with two groups of teeth: one group in the place where, in quadrupeds, we usually find the molars; and another group in the line of the symphyses.

    Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

  • Each of the under jaws of the fish was furnished with two groups of teeth: one group in the place where, in quadrupeds, we usually find the molars; and another group in the line of the symphyses.

    Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence Louis Agassiz 1840

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