symphysis
noun
- 1
The process of two originally separate bones growing together as the subject matures, as with the pubic bones or lower jawbones in humans.
- 2
A line, discernable on an X-ray, showing such fusion.
- 3
The cartilaginous material that adjoins and facilitates the junction of such bones, with or without synovia.
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