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synostosis Anat. and Phys.|sɪnɒˈstəʊsɪs|
Pl. -oses |-ˈəʊsiːz|.
[Contracted from synosteosis.]
Union or fusion of adjacent bones by growth of bony substance (either normal or abnormal).
1848[see synosteosis]. 1864J. B. Davis Neanderthal Skull 4 Synostosis, or the premature ossification of one or more of the sutures between the cranial bones. 1898J. Hutchinson in Archives Surg. IX. 352 Multiple exostoses, hyperostoses, and synostoses of the vertebral column.
Hence synostotic |sɪnɒˈstɒtɪk| a., pertaining to, characterized by, or affected with synostosis.
1864Thurnam in Nat. Hist. Rev. (1865) Apr. 247 The abnormal scaphoid skulls of the African races..seem to fall..under the definition of what is termed by Welcker, synostotic dolichocephalism. 1864J. B. Davis Neanderthal Skull 13 The great depression of the frontal and vertical regions in a synostotic skull. 1904Duckworth Morphol. & Anthropol. x. 251 Synostotic deformation..consequent upon..precocious union of two or more cranial bones. |