NOUN
- a growing together of parts or structures
- an abnormal adhesion of two or more structures
How To Use symphysis In A Sentence
- Abbreviations: TCNDSFB, longest tooth length, condylobasal cranium length, narial position, dentary length, symphysis position, mandibular foramen height; and bulla length, respectively; PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- Gentle traction downward on the head will assist in bringing the anterior shoulder beneath the symphysis.
- According to Von Meyer no mandibular tusks were present and most probably the jaw possessed a short elephantine symphysis.
- The mandibular symphysis is more than one-third of the total length of the mandible, and the dentary, angular, and splenial are involved.
- The first form is termed a symphysis (Fig. 298), the second a syndesmosis. III. Syndesmology. 3. Classification of Joints
- Dyspnea may respond to pleural fluid drainage followed by a pleurodesis procedure that creates a symphysis of the visceral and parietal pleuras, thereby preventing pleural fluid reaccumulation.
- The medial surface of the dentary immediately below the first tooth is expanded to form a flat mandibular symphysis with a subcircular to rectangular outline.
- The arching form of the diaphragm, and the lower level which the pubic symphysis occupies compared with that of the cristae of the iliac bones, occasion this difference in the measure of both the thorax and abdomen. Surgical Anatomy
- He married in 1870, and upon being told that he was a father he slit up the hypogastrium from the symphysis pubis to the umbilicus, so that the omentum protruded; he said his object was to obtain a view of the interior. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
- Afradapis, such as the loss of the second premolar and the fusion of the two halves of the lower jaw (called the mandibular symphysis), are not seen in closest relatives of the earliest anthropoids like the recently-discovered genus Biretia. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science