ankylose

American  

[ang-kuh-lohs] / ˈæŋ kəˌloʊs /

verb (used with or without object)

ankylosed, ankylosing

1. to unite or grow together, as the bones of a joint or the root of a tooth and its surrounding bone.

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ankylose British  

/ ˈæŋkɪˌləʊs, -ˌləʊz /

verb

1. (of bones in a joint, etc) to fuse or stiffen by ankylosis

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Etymology

Origin of ankylose

First recorded in 1780–90; back formation from ankylosis

Example Sentences

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ankylose ankylosed ankylosing

If the paralysis is widely distributed, and the joints are flail-like, it is better to ankylose the ankle and mid-tarsal joints.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles

The vertebral column is often ankylosed in the fore-part, but is extremely elastic, owing to the cartilaginous cushion between each bone in the latter half.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale

After a straightening by frame treatment, the boy's spine had been ankylosed by an operation; and as every one felt sorry for the little fellow, we were often able to send him gifts.

From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

The patient was a boy of twelve, whose right knee was ankylosed.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

Even his ribs were ankylosed; his chest puffed up, and the breathing was entirely abdominal.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

The ulna is complete and much larger than in any of the Equidoe, while it is more slender than in most of the true Paloeotheria; it is fixedly united, but not ankylosed, with the radius.

From Discourses Biological and Geological Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

Disturbances to this tightly orchestrated process are responsible for features of diseases such as osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis, which show excessive bone breakdown, or ankylosing spondylitis, where abnormal bone growth occurs.

From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024

Barber explained that he lives with a rare, debilitating and “dangerous” form of arthritis called ankylosing spondylitis, which prevents him from sitting in or rising from low chairs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2023

For example, an early Humira patent, which expired in 2016, claimed that the drug could treat a condition known as ankylosing spondylitis, a type of arthritis that causes inflammation in the joints, among other diseases.

From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2023

Diagnosed with a rare type of arthritis called ankylosing spondylitis, she had extensive surgery to straighten her right leg in 2018.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2020

The ankylosing type of chronic arthritis is fortunately much rarer than those described above, and is chiefly met with in the joints of the fingers and toes and in those of the vertebral column.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson