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noun
The process of two originally separate bones growing together as the subject matures, as with the pubic bones or lower jawbones in humans.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
A place where two bones are closely joined in the median plane of the body, either forming an immovable joint (as between the pubic bones in the center of the pelvis) or completely fused (as at the midline of the lower jaw).
A line, discernable on an X-ray, showing such fusion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
A place where two bones are closely joined in the median plane of the body, either forming an immovable joint (as between the pubic bones in the center of the pelvis) or completely fused (as at the midline of the lower jaw).
The cartilaginous material that adjoins and facilitates the junction of such bones, without a synovial membrane.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
a growing together of parts or structures
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: organic process, biological process
noun
an abnormal adhesion of two or more structures
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: adhesion
History
Borrowed from New Latin symphysis.
Across languages
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