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n. Anatomy The consolidation of bones or their parts to form a single unit.

n. Pathology The stiffening and immobility of a joint as the result of disease, trauma, surgery, or abnormal bone fusion.

n. The growing together of bones to form a single unit.

n. The stiffening of a joint as the result of such abnormal fusion.

n. An onset of stiffness or inflexibility.

n. Same as anchylosis.

n. In anatomy and zoology, the consolidation or fusion of two or more bones in one, or the union of the different parts of a bone; bony union; synosteosis: as, the ankylosis of the cranial bones one with another; the ankylosis of the different elements of the temporal bone; the ankylosis of an epiphysis with the shaft of a bone.

n. In pathology, stiffness and immovability of a joint; morbid adhesion of the articular ends of contiguous bones.

n. Improperly spelled anchylosis.

n. abnormal adhesion and rigidity of the bones of a joint

"But Marxism needs to develop; get rid of a certain ankylosis [pathological stiffening]; interpret today's conditions with an objective, scientific perspective; conduct itself like a revolutionary force and not like a psuedorevolutionary church. [applause] These are history's paradoxes."

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