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‖ gomphosis Anat.|gɒmˈfəʊsɪs|
[mod.L., a. Gr. γόµϕωσις, f. γοµϕόειν to bolt together, f. γόµϕος bolt.]
A form of immovable articulation, in which one hard part (e.g. a tooth) is received into the cavity of another, as a peg or nail into its socket.
1578Banister Hist. Man i. 13 The manner of their [teeth] situation in the iawes is named Gomphosis. 1658Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. Ep. Ded., Toothed bars, that answer one the other with a thorny gomphosis. 1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus iii. 57 The seeds of many pappous or downy flowers lockt up in sockets after a gomphosis or mortis⁓articulation. 1741A. Monro Anat. Bones (ed. 3) 157 The teeth are joined to the Sockets by Gomphosis. 1854R. Owen in Circ. Sci., Organ. Nat. I. 216 The..plates are..articulated by gomphosis to the..ribs. |