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- noun obsolete, rare The
fusion of twobodies , or two parts of a body
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mollusque commented on the word symphysy
Union or fusion of two bodies or parts of a body.
March 3, 2008
mollusque commented on the word symphysy
The fact of polysemy poses the fundamental problem for language analysis because it concerns the very nature of the basic entity of language: the combination of meaning and form, the symphysy of mental and physical that constitutes every word or morpheme.
--Y. Tobin, 1989, From Sign to Text: A Semiotic View of Communication, p. 138
March 3, 2008