English English Dictionary

Same as Synosteosis.

A transparent, viscid, lubricating fluid which contains mucin and secreted by synovial membranes; synovial fluid.

Of or pertaining to synovia; secreting synovia.

Inflammation of the synovial membrane.

Having the two main flexor tendons of the toes blended together.

Having united sepals; gamosepalous.

Alt. of Syntactical

Of or pertaining to syntax; according to the rules of syntax, or construction.

Connected system or order; union of things; a number of things jointed together; organism.

That part of grammar which treats of the construction of sentences; the due arrangement of words in sentences in their necessary relations, according to established usage in any language.

Syntax.

Prophylaxis.

Conscience viewed as the internal repository of the laws of duty.

Preserving health; prophylactic.

That department of medicine which relates to the preservation of health; prophylaxis.

Having the same degree of heat.

of Synthesis

Composition, or the putting of two or more things together, as in compounding medicines.

The art or process of making a compound by putting the ingredients together, as contrasted with analysis; thus, water is made by synthesis from hydrogen and oxygen; hence, specifically, the building up of complex compounds by special reactions, whereby their component radicals are so grouped that the resulting substances are identical in every respect with the natural articles when such occur; thus, artificial alcohol, urea, indigo blue, alizarin, etc., are made by synthesis.

The combination of separate elements of thought into a whole, as of simple into complex conceptions, species into genera, individual propositions into systems; -- the opposite of analysis.