Definition of Gomphoses
||Gom*pho"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr.
&?;, prop., a bolting together, fr. &?; to fasten with bolts or
nails, &?; bolt, nail: cf. F. gomphose.] (Anat.) A
form of union or immovable articulation where a hard part is received
into the cavity of a bone, as the teeth into the jaws.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (anatomy) a type of fibrous, immovable joint such as the one between the teeth and the alveolar bone
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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