synostosis

plural synostoses

1. countableuncountablemedicineThe healthy fusion of adjacent bones by the growth of a bony material.

   normal human cranial synostosis

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   Examples of normal human developmental synostosis occur in the mandible and in the sacrum.

2. countableuncountablemedicineThe abnormal bony fusion of a joint.

   Various synostoses are typical of Antley-Bixler syndrome.

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   Conditions such as those are known collectively as single suture synostosis.

   2009 January 25, Denis Campbell, “Kian, 4, needs a miracle. He's in the right place”, in The Observer

   Synonyms: synosteosis