Usually means: Joint connecting tooth to socket.
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  1. gomphosis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. gomphosis: Collins English Dictionary
  3. gomphosis: Wordnik
  4. gomphosis: Wiktionary
  5. gomphosis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. gomphosis: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. gomphosis: Dictionary.com
  8. Gomphosis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Gomphosis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. gomphosis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Gomphosis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. gomphosis: FreeDictionary.org
  13. gomphosis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. gomphosis: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. gomphosis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. gomphosis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Gomphosis: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  5. DICTIONARY OF TERMS IN ORAL PHYSIOLOGY (No longer online)
  6. gomphosis: Medical dictionary

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  1. gomphosis: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gomphosis)

▸ noun:  (anatomy) A type of fibrous, immovable joint such as the one between the teeth and the alveolar bone.

Similar:
peg-and-socket joint, tooth socket, synarthrosis, syngnathia, inferognathal, amphiarthrosis, zygoma, symphysis, arthrosis, synostosis, more...

Opposite:
synarthrosis, amphiarthrosis, diarthrosis

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Similar:
peg-and-socket joint, tooth socket, synarthrosis, syngnathia, inferognathal, amphiarthrosis, zygoma, symphysis, arthrosis, synostosis, more...

Opposite:
synarthrosis, amphiarthrosis, diarthrosis



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