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synechia

[si-nek-ee-uh, -nee-kee-uh, sin-i-kahy-uh]

noun

Medicine/Medical, Pathology.

plural

synechiae 
  1. any adhesion of parts of the body, as of the iris to the cornea.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of synechia1

1835–45; < New Latin < Greek synécheia continuity, coherence, equivalent to syneche-, stem of synechḗs (adj.) holding together ( syn- syn- + ech ( ein ) to hold + -ēs adj. suffix) + -ia -ia
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Example Sentences

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On the other hand, considerable opacity of the corneæ or cases which were complicated with anterior synechia, &c., were excluded from the statistics.

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