ankylosed
adjEtymology From ankylose + -ed.
1
Of bones or joints Stiffened or inflexible.
2
Broadly, Figuratively Stiff, cramped, rigid.
- The pipy arms, ending in bony claws were outthrust as if ankylosed in the posture of an eternal dreadful groping.August 1935, Clark Ashton Smith, Weird Tales, "The Treader of the Dust"
- it was a strange spot, this forest of dark petrifacts, this grove of ankylosed trees.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 133:
- Related terms
- arthrodesis, arthrosis