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DIARTHROSIS

Volume 7 · 53 words · 1815 Edition

in Anatomy, a kind of articulation or juncture of the bones; which being pretty lax affords room for a manifest motion. The word comes from dia, and egeor, juncture, assemblage. It is opposed to synarthrosis, wherein the articulation is so close that there is no sensible motion at all. See ANATOMY, No 2.