See also:

• ANKYLOSIS, or ANCYYLOSIS (from Gr. ayKVXos, bent, crooked)

ANKYLOSIS, or ANCYYLOSIS (from Gr. ayKVXos, See also:

• BENT
• BENT (E1. BENI)
• BENT, JAMES THEODORE (1852–1897)

bent, crooked)  , a stiffness of a See also:

• JOINT (through Fr. from Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)

joint, the result of injury or disease . The rigidity may be See also:

• COMPLETE

complete or partial and may be due to inflammation of the tendinous or See also:

• MUSCULAR

muscular structures outside the joint or of the tissues of the joint itself . When the structures outside the joint are affected, the See also:

• TERM

term " false " See also:

• ANKYLOSIS, or ANCYYLOSIS (from Gr. ayKVXos, bent, crooked)

ankylosis has been used in contradistinction to " true " ankylosis, in which the disease is within the joint . When inflammation has caused the joint-ends of the bones to be fused together the ankylosis is termed osseous or complete . Excision of a completely ankylosed See also:

• SHOULDER (in O.E. sculder, cognate with Ger. Schulter, Dutch schouder, Swed. skuldra, &c; the root is unknown)

shoulder or See also:

• ELBOW

elbow may restore See also:

• FREE

free mobility and usefulness to the See also:

• LIMB

limb . " Ankylosis " is also used as an anatomical term, bones being said to ankylose (or anchylose) when, from being originally distinct, they coalesce, or become so joined together that no See also:

• MOTION (Lat. motio, from movere, to move)
• MOTION, LAWS OF

motion can take See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place between them .