Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A form of articulation in which the bones are rigidly joined by fibrous tissue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Immovable articulation; a joint permitting no motion between or among the bones which enter into its composition: one of three principal kinds of articulation, distinguished from
amphiarthrosis , or mixed articulation, and diarthrosis, or movable articulation; a suture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) Immovable articulation by close union, as in sutures. It sometimes includes symphysial articulations also. See the Note under
articulation , n., 1.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy A type of
joint in which twobones are connected rigidly byfibrous tissue
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek sunarthrōsis, from sunarthrousthai, to be joined by articulation : sun-, syn- + arthron, a joint; see ar- in Indo-European roots.]
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Examples
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The vertebrae on the inside are regularly placed upon one another, but behind they are connected by a cartilaginous ligament; they are articulated in the form of synarthrosis at the back part of the spinal marrow; behind they have a sharp process having a cartilaginous epiphysis, whence proceeds the roots of nerves running downward, as also muscles extending from the neck to the loins, and filling the space between the ribs and the spine.
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There are four varieties of synarthrosis: sutura, schindylesis, gomphosis, and synchondrosis.
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