Usually means: Joint fusion, often due to arthritis.
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  1. anchylose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. anchylose: Collins English Dictionary
  3. anchylose: Wordnik
  4. anchylose: Wiktionary
  5. anchylose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. anchylose: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. Anchylose, anchylose, anchylose: Dictionary.com
  8. Anchylose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. anchylose: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Anchylose: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. anchylose: FreeDictionary.org
  12. anchylose: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anchylose: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Anchylose)

▸ verb:  Alternative form of ankylose [(transitive, pathology) To cause bony structures to fuse or stiffen as a result of ankylosis.]

Similar:
hyposialylate, histolyse, lysogenise, cytolyse, endoproteolyse, endothelialise, hemolyse, haemolyze, haemolyse, lyze, more...

Opposite:
mobilize, loosen, unfreeze, unfix

Types:
spondylosis, spondylitis, spondylolysis, spondylolisthesis, more...

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Similar:
hyposialylate, histolyse, lysogenise, cytolyse, endoproteolyse, endothelialise, hemolyse, haemolyze, haemolyse, lyze, more...

Opposite:
mobilize, loosen, unfreeze, unfix

Types:
spondylosis, spondylitis, spondylolysis, spondylolisthesis, more...



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