Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The union or attachment of bones, such as the hyoid bone and lower jaw, by means of muscle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, fleshy connection; the connection of one bone with another by means of intervening muscle: correlated with synneurosis, syndesmosis, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The junction of bones by intervening muscles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy The
junction ofbones by interveningmuscles .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek sussarkōsis, state of being overgrown with flesh, from sussarkousthai, to be overgrown with flesh : sun-, syn- + sarkousthai, passive of sarkoun, to make fleshy (from sarx, sark-, flesh).]
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