anchylosed, ank-, ppl. a.
(ˈæŋkɪləʊzd)
[f. prec. + -ed.]
Of two bones: Grown together, so firmly united as no longer to move upon each other. Hence of a joint: Stiffened.
| 1812 H. Browne Apothec. Vade Mec. 8 The restored action of an anchylosed joint. 1849 Murchison Siluria x. 241 The jaws and anchylosed teeth of some small fish. 1875 Blake Zool. 88 The anchylosed lumbar and sacral vertebræ. |
b. fig. Cramped, rigid.
| 1860 W. Webb in Med. Times 15 Sept. 266/1 Mind and body, too, grow so anchylosed, that they will work only in one direction. |