ankylosed

English

Etymology

ankylose +‎ -ed

Verb

ankylosed

1. simple past and past participle of ankylose

Adjective

ankylosed (comparative more ankylosed, superlative most ankylosed)

1. (of bones or joints) Stiffened or inflexible.
2. (figuratively, by extension) Stiff, cramped, rigid.
   • August 1935, Clark Ashton Smith, Weird Tales, "The Treader of the Dust":

     The pipy arms, ending in bony claws were outthrust as if ankylosed in the posture of an eternal dreadful groping.

   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 133:

     it was a strange spot, this forest of dark petrifacts, this grove of ankylosed trees.

Translations

of bones or joints: stiffened or inflexible

• Portuguese: anquilosado (pt), ancilosado (pt)

See also

• arthrodesis
• arthrosis