Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Anchor-shaped; specifically, in anatomy, curved or bent like the fluke of an anchor: applied to the coracoid process of the shoulder-blade (see cut under scapula), and
  • to the cornua of the lateral ventricle of the brain. Also written ankyroid.

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  • 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.

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