ANCYLOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ancylose mean? 

• ANCYLOSE (verb)
  The verb ANCYLOSE has 2 senses:

1. produce ankylosis by surgery

2. undergo ankylosis

  Familiarity information: ANCYLOSE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANCYLOSE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Produce ankylosis by surgery

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

ancylose; ankylose

Hypernyms (to "ancylose" is one way to...):

join (cause to become joined or linked)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Undergo ankylosis

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

ancylose; ankylose

Context example:

joints ankylose

Hypernyms (to "ancylose" is one way to...):

grow (increase in size by natural process)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

Did his feet ancylose?