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English
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin symphysis.
Pronunciation
Noun
symphysis (plural symphyses)
- (anatomy) The process of two originally separate bones growing together as the subject matures, as with the pubic bones or lower jawbones in humans.
- (anatomy) 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).
- (medicine) A line, discernable on an X-ray, showing such fusion.
- (anatomy) The cartilaginous material that adjoins and facilitates the junction of such bones, without a synovial membrane.
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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek σύμφῠσῐς (súmphusis, “growing together, natural junction”), from σῠμφύω (sumphúō, “to make to grow together, to unite”) + -σῐς (-sis, nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
symphysis f (genitive symphysis or symphyseōs or symphysios); third declension
- (anatomy) A symphysis.
Inflection
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).
1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.
Descendants
→ English: symphysis