ANKYLOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ankylose mean? 

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

1. produce ankylosis by surgery

2. undergo ankylosis

  Familiarity information: ANKYLOSE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANKYLOSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they ankylose    ... he / she / it ankyloses   
Past simple: ankylosed   
Past participle: ankylosed   
-ing form: ankylosing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Produce ankylosis by surgery

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

ancylose; ankylose

Hypernyms (to "ankylose" 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 "ankylose" 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 ankylose?

 Context examples 

Certain allelic variants of the HLA-B gene are associated with susceptibility to ankylosing spondylitis, carbamazepine-induced Stevens-Johnson syndrome and allopurinol-induced severe cutaneous adverse reaction.

(HLA-B wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

It is associated with susceptibility to ankylosing spondylitis, Behcet syndrome and carbamazepine-induced Stevens-Johnson syndrome.

(HLA Class I Histocompatibility Antigen, B-7 Alpha Chain, NCI Thesaurus)

Over time, ankylosing spondylitis can fuse your vertebrae together, limiting movement.

(Ankylosing Spondylitis, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease)

Ankylosing spondylitis is an immune disease.

(Ankylosing Spondylitis, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease)

Ankylosing spondylitis is a type of arthritis of the spine.

(Ankylosing Spondylitis, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease)