Definitions

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

  • intransitive verb To join or consolidate by ankylosis.
  • intransitive verb To become joined or consolidated by ankylosis.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To fix immovably, as a joint; stiffen.
  • In osteology, to become consolidated, as one bone with another or a tooth with a jaw; become firmly united bone to bone; grow together, as two or more bones; effect bony union or ankylosis.
  • Improperly spelled anchylose.

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

  • verb Same as anchylose.

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

  • verb transitive, pathology To cause bony structures to fuse or stiffen as a result of ankylosis.
  • verb intransitive, pathology To suffer from ankylosis.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb produce ankylosis by surgery
  • verb undergo ankylosis

Etymologies

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

[Back-formation from ankylosis.]

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back formation from ankylosis

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Examples

  • If the paralysis is widely distributed, and the joints are flail-like, it is better to ankylose the ankle and mid-tarsal joints.

    Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

  • The proper sequence consists in correcting the deformity, providing the simplest apparatus to keep the limb in good position, preventing erroneous deflection of body weight during walking, and then allowing the child to grow and develop until he has reached the age of five before considering such an operation as transplanting tendons, and the age of ten before deciding to ankylose

    Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

  • "The clergy here are, it may be said, admirable, composed of good and saintly priests; but they vegetate, torpid with inaction; they neither read nor work; their joints become ankylose; they die of weariness in this provincial spot."

    The Cathedral 1877

  • n. - joining together of bones or hard parts; resulting stiffness. ankylose, v.i. (of bones) to fuse or stiffen in this way. ankyroid, ancyroid adj. - having shape of hook.

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

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