Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The fusion of normally separate skeletal bones.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as synosteosis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Same as synosteosis.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun medicine The abnormal development of a joint.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[syn– + Greek osteon, bone; see ost- in Indo-European roots + –osis.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From syn- + Ancient Greek ὀστέον (osteon, "bone") + -osis.

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