ankylosis (angkilosis)

[Improperly anchylosis, strictly * ancylosis, IMG:content-0782.png:[blocks in formation] 222 άγκος, a bend), = L. angulus, angle (cf. ancus, bent); closely related to E. angle1: see anglel and ankle.] 1. In an at. and zoöl., the consolidation or fusion of two or more bones in one, or the union of the different parts of a bone; bony union; syn osteosis: as, the ankylosis of the cranial bones one with another; the anky los is of the different elements of the temporal bone; the ankylosis of an epiphysis with the shaft of a bone.-2. In pathol., stiffne and immovability of a joint; morbid adhesion of the articular ends of contiguous bones. He moves along stiffly.. as the man who, as we are told in the Philosophical Transactions, was afflicted with an universal anchylosis. Goldsmith, Criticisms. Improperly spelled anchylosis. ankylotic (ang-ki-lot'ik), a . [ ankylosis : see -otic .] Pertaining to ankylosis. Improperly spelled anchylotic. ankylotome (ang-kil'ō-tom), n. [ anky lotomus , ankylosis ), + τομή, & cutting, τέμνειν , ταμεῖν , cut: see tome.] 1. A surgical instrument for operating on adhesions or contractions, especially of the tongue.-2. А curved knife or bistoury. Equivalent forms are ancylotome , ankylotomus , ancylotomus . ankylotomus (ang-ki-lot'ō-mus), n.; pl. ankylotomi (-mī). [NL.] Same as ankylotome . Also written ancylotomus . ankyroid (an-kī'roid), a . Same as ancyroid. anlacet, anelacet (an'lās, -e-lās), n. [ anlas , anala e , anlace , ane- lace , in Latinized form anelacius , anelatius, OW. anglas ; of uncer- tain origin.] A dagger or short sword, very broad and thin at the hilt and tapering to a point, used from the twelfth to the fifteenth century. Also spelled anelas . An anlas and a gipser al of silk Heng at his girdel. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 357. Anlace. (From Violletle-Duc's "Dict. annealing annual is, > E. annual, q. v.), anulus, also written annulus, a ring: see annulus ), perhaps The Tour de Con stance [at Aigues-Mortes]... served for years as a prison,. and the annals of these dreadful chambers during the first half of the last century were written in tears of blood. H. James, Jr., Little Tour, p. 177. = Syn. History, Chronicle, etc. See history, also list under chronicle. Annamese (an-a-mēs' or -mēz'), a. and n. [ II. n. 1. sing. or pl . A native or the natives of Annam; an inhabitant or the inhabitants of Annam, a feudatory dependency of China till 1883, when France established a protectorate over it. Annam occupies the eastern portion of the Indo-Chinese peninsula, having China proper on the north and Siam on the west. 2. The language spoken in Annam. It is monosyllabic, and allied to the Chinese. Annamese literature is written in Chinese characters, used phonetically. Also spelled Anamese . français.") IMG:content-0783.png:[blocks in formation] sound of a word.