symphysisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from New Latin symphysis.

発音

• IPA: /ˈsɪm.fɪs.ɪs/

名詞

symphysis (countable and uncountable, plural symphyses)

1. (anatomy) The process of two originally separate bones growing together as the subject matures, as with the pubic bones or lower jawbones in humans.
2. (anatomy) A place where two bones are closely joined in the median plane of the body, either forming an immovable joint (as between the pubic bones in the center of the pelvis) or completely fused (as at the midline of the lower jaw).
   1. (medicine) A line, discernable on an X-ray, showing such fusion.
   2. (anatomy) The cartilaginous material that adjoins and facilitates the junction of such bones, without a synovial membrane.

派生語

参照

• “symphysis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “symphysis”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

発音

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈsim.fi.s̬is]

名詞

symphysis f (genitive symphysis or symphyseōs or symphysios); third declension

1. (anatomy) A symphysis.

Inflection

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem).

Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

派生した語

→ English: symphysis