synovialadj.n.

1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. 184 The Gout is an obstruction of the synovial vessels.

1767 B. Gooch Pract. Treat. Wounds I. 437 Wounds, that enter the joints,..will generally afford a larger synovial discharge.

1808 J. Barclay Muscular Motions 436 Had a tendon been substituted, we should naturally suppose..that it would have been surrounded with synovial membrane.

1846 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. II. 416 The synovial fluid is viscid, transparent, of a yellow or reddish colour, faintly saline.

1864 R. Owen Lect. Power of God 23 A..joint..with the co-adjusted surfaces covered by smooth cartilage, and lubricated by joint-oil, retained and secreted by a synovial capsule.

1846 F. Brittan tr. J. F. Malgaigne Man. Operative Surg. 83 Synovial cysts.

1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 776 It is estimated that 85 per cent of the cases of synovial inflammation occur in the knee.

1886 P. H. Pye-Smith Fagge's Princ. & Pract. Med. II. 529 Synovial rheumatism.

1910 Practitioner Feb. 206 Many septic infections of joints have but a feeble power of destroying their surfaces, while some others..appear terribly destructive both to the cartilages and the synovials.

1870 W. H. Flower Introd. Osteol. Mammalia x. 135 A small bony nodule..which is articulated synovially to the upper corner of the outer extremity of the basihyal.