Usually means: Fusion of two bones together.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. synostosis: Merriam-Webster
  2. synostosis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. synostosis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. synostosis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. synostosis: Wordnik
  6. synostosis: Wiktionary
  7. synostosis: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. synostosis: Dictionary.com
  9. Synostosis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Synostosis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. synostosis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Synostosis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. synostosis: FreeDictionary.org
  14. synostosis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. synostosis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. synostosis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  6. synostosis: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See synostoses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (synostosis)

noun:  (physiology) The fusion of adjacent bones by the growth of a bony material
noun:  (pathology) The abnormal development of a joint.

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