‖ synarthrosis Anat.
(sɪnɑːˈθrəʊsɪs)
Pl. -throses (-ˈθrəʊsiːz).
[mod.L., a. Gr. συνάρθρωσις, f. σύν syn-1 + ἄρθρωσις jointing, arthrosis.]
A form of articulation in which the bones are firmly fixed so as to be incapable of moving upon one another, as in the sutures of the skull and the sockets of the teeth: distinguished from amphiarthrosis and diarthrosis.
| 1578 Banister Hist. Man 3 b, Not vnder the kynde of Diarthrosis, but Synarthrosis: for asmuch as the mouyng of these bones is most obscure. 1634 T. Johnson Parey's Chirurg. vi. xlii. (1678) 165 Synarthrosis, or Coarticulation,..hath..three kinds. 1841 R. E. Grant Comp. Anat. 125 There are fewer immoveable synarthroses than in birds and mammalia. |