Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A type of immovable articulation, as of a tooth inserted into its bony socket.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of synarthrosis or immovable articulation in which one part enters into another like a peg or nail.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy a type of
fibrous ,immovable joint such as the one between theteeth and thealveolar bone
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek gomphōsis, from gomphoun, to fasten with bolts, from gomphos, bolt; see gembh- in Indo-European roots.]
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From the Greek γόμφος, meaning peg.
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Examples
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My smile is fifty thousand watts of thirty or so remaining teeth, happily grinning without a gomphosis in a trembling mandible.
I Know Where the Yakonan Have Gone Tara M. M. Larkin 2011
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There are four varieties of synarthrosis: sutura, schindylesis, gomphosis, and synchondrosis.
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