🦴 Stiff or fused 🦴 To stiffen

to ankylosing

9.9

To become stiff and stick together in bones or joints

verb

Specialized

: anquilosar

Early treatment can help prevent the bones from ankylosing completely.

Examples

Doctors monitor patients for signs of ankylosing in their hip joints.
The disease is known for ankylosing the joints of the spine over time.
The patient is ankylosing rapidly due to the disease.
His joints are ankylosing more each year.
The disease is known for ankylosing the joints of the spine over time.
Doctors monitor patients for signs of ankylosing in their hip joints.
Early treatment can help prevent the bones from ankylosing completely.

Synonyms

to stiffen

vsto ankylosing

25 3.7

To make or become hard and less able to bend

focuses on bones or joints losing movement often with fusion rather than general stiffness

to sclerose

vsto ankylosing

Specialized

1 9.9

To become hard and stiff in tissue or an organ because of disease

is specifically about bones or joints becoming stiff or fused

to ankylose

vsto ankylosing

Specialized

9.9

Become stiff and fixed when the bones of a joint grow together

is about bones or joints losing mobility through stiffening or fusion

Compounds

ankylosing spondylitis

Specialized

1 7.5

A long illness that makes the spine stiff and painful and can make its bones join together

How Stiff

to ankylosing

Specialized

9.9

rigid

35 4.0

stiff

127 1.7

mobile

81 2.7

Surface Forms

ankylosing infinitive

ankylosing present participle

ankyloses third person singular

ankylosed past

ankylosed past participle

Morphology

ankylosing = ankylose (opaque) = ankyl + ose + ing

As a verb form of a rare medical root, the action sense is not derivable by general learners from the components.

Etymology

Ankylosing comes from the Greek root ankyl- which means 'bent' or 'fused'. A helpful image is bones slowly 'gluing' themselves together and losing movement, which is what it means when something is ankylosing.