different between symphysis vs symphysies

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

Noun

symphysies

1. plural of symphysy