verb
- to stiffen or fuse (a joint) so that it becomes immobile, especially due to disease or injury
Usage: medical/anatomical term; often used in passive voice
Examples
- The patient's knee began to anchylose after the severe arthritis progressed.
- Prolonged immobility can cause joints to anchylose over time.
- The surgeon warned that without treatment, the spine might anchylose.
- Anchylosed joints lose their range of motion permanently.
- Inflammation caused the vertebrae to gradually anchylose together.