different between symphysis vs ramus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin symphysis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?m.f?s.?s/

Noun

symphysis (plural symphyses)

1. (anatomy) The process of two originally separate bones growing together as the subject matures, as with the pubic bones or lower jawbones in humans.
2. (anatomy) A place where two bones are closely joined in the median plane of the body, either forming an immovable joint (as between the pubic bones in the center of the pelvis) or completely fused (as at the midline of the lower jaw).
   1. (medicine) A line, discernable on an X-ray, showing such fusion.
   2. (anatomy) The cartilaginous material that adjoins and facilitates the junction of such bones, without a synovial membrane.

References

• “symphysis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “symphysis”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (súmphusis, “growing together, natural junction”), from ?????? (sumphú?, “to make to grow together, to unite”) +? -??? (-sis, nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sim.fi.sis/, [?simfis?is]

Noun

symphysis f (genitive symphysis or symphyse?s or symphysios); third declension

1. (anatomy) A symphysis.

Inflection

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Descendants

? English: symphysis

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin r?mus (“branch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?m?s/
• Rhymes: -e?m?s

Noun

ramus (plural rami)

1. A small spray or twig.
2. (biology) A branching, as of nerves or blood vessels.
3. (ornithology) The stem of a barb of a feather, from which the barbules extend.
4. (anatomy) A bony projection, particularly of the jaw, but also in the groin area, both subject to the maturing process of symphysis.

Derived terms

• ramal

Related terms

• interramal
• ramification

Anagrams

• Masur, Sarum, Surma, Umars, amurs, arums, musar, rusma, surma

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wréh?ds (“root”) and cognate with r?d?x.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ra?.mus/, [?rä?m?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ra.mus/, [?r??mus]

Noun

r?mus m (genitive r?m?); second declension

1. branch, bough, limb

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• r?mific?
• r?m?sus
• r?mulus
• r?musculus

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: ram
• Italian: ramo
• Old French: raim, rain, ram, reim, rein
• Old Occitan: ram
  • Catalan: ram
  • Occitan: ram
• Old Portuguese: ramo
  • Galician: ramo, rama
  • Portuguese: ramo
• Old Spanish: ramo
  • Spanish: ramo
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: ram
  • Romansch: rom, ram
• Sicilian: ramu
• ? Albanian: rremb
• ? English: ramus
• ? Vulgar Latin: *r?ma
  • Dalmatian: ruoma
• ? Vulgar Latin: *ramellus
  • Old French: ramel
    • French: rameau
    • Walloon: ramxhyî
  • Old Occitan: ramel
    • Occitan: ramèl
• ? Vulgar Latin: *d?r?m?, *d?r?m?re
  • Dalmatian: dramur
  • Eastern Romance:
    • Romanian: d?râma, d?rma
  • Italian: diramare
  • Old French: deramer
  • Old Portuguese: derramar
    • Galician: derramar
    • Portuguese: derramar
  • Old Spanish:
    • Spanish: derramar
  • ? Albanian: dërmoj (uncertain)

References

• ramus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ramus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ramus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Anagrams

• armus

Lithuanian

Etymology

• Compare Latvian r?ms (“calm, tranquil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [r??m?s?]

Adjective

ramùs m (stress pattern: 4)

1. calm

   ramus miegas - calm sleep

   ramus oras - calm weather

   rami j?ra - a calm sea

   rami gatv? - a tranquil street

Inflection

Synonyms

• tylus

Related terms

Derived terms

• (noun) ramyb? f

References