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synostosis

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synostosis [si‚nä′stō·səs]
(anatomy)
A type of synarthrosis in which the bones are continuous.
(medicine)
Union of originally separate bones into a single bone structure.


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Banks was born with left occipital synostosis, a rare deformity in which the left side of the skull is not completely formed.
 
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