Definition of "ankylosed" [ankylosed]

• Simple past tense and past participle of ankylose. (verb)
• Stiffened or inflexible, with regard to the bones or joints; figuratively, stiff, cramped, rigid. (adjective)

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• ""Why," asks Poincaré, "do certain degrees of freedom appear to play no part here; why are they, so to speak, 'ankylosed'?""
• "For the bones at the elbow are less subject to dislocation than those of the knee, but are more difficult to reduce and keep in their position, and are more apt to become inflamed and ankylosed."
• "And besides, if the joint is to be stiffened by callus, it were better that this should not take place when the arm is extended, for this position will be a great impediment and little advantage; if the arm be wholly bent, it will be more useful; but it will be much more convenient to have the joint in the intermediate position when it becomes ankylosed."