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ankylosis, anchylosis abnormal adhesion or immobility of the bones in a joint, as by a direct joining of the bones, a fibrous growth of tissues within the joint, or surgery ankylosis [‚aŋ·kə′lō·səs] Also spelled anchylosis. (medicine) Stiffness or immobilization of a joint due to a surgical or pathologic process. (physics) The loss by a system of one or more degrees of freedom through development of one or more frictional constraints. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It was labour, whose practical difference from the other forms of labour consisted in the nature of its risk, which did not lie in ankylosis, or lead poisoning, or fire-damp, or gritty dust, but in what may be briefly defined in its own special phraseology as "Seven years hard. |
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