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anchylose

anchylose is the alternative form of ankylose.

Meaning of ankylose

Verb

ankylose (third-person singular simple present ankyloses, present participle ankylosing, simple past and past participle ankylosed)

  1. (transitive) To cause bony structures to fuse or stiffen as a result of ankylosis.
  2. (intransitive) To suffer from ankylosis.

Forms of anchylose

third-person singular presentanchyloses
present participleanchylosing
past participleanchylosed
pastanchylosed

Words formed from anchylose

Questions about anchylose

What is anchylose the alternative form of?
Anchylose is the alternative form of ankylose.

Words near anchylose in the dictionary

  1. anchusic acid
  2. anchusic acids
  3. anchusin
  4. anchusine
  5. Anchuthengu
  6. anchylose
  7. anchylosed
  8. anchyloses
  9. anchylosing
  10. anchylosis
  11. anchylostomiasis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anchylose (page history and authors); ankylose (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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