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A transparent, viscid, lubricating fluid which contains mucin and secreted by synovial membranes; synovial fluid.

Of or pertaining to synovia; secreting synovia. Synovial capsule, a closed sac of synovial membrane situated between the articular surfaces at diarthrodial joints. -- Synovial fluid, synovia. -- Synovial membrane, the dense and very smooth connective tissue membrane which secretes synovia and surrounds synovial capsu…

Inflammation of the synovial membrane.

Having the two main flexor tendons of the toes blended together.

Having united sepals; gamosepalous.

Of or pertaining to syntax; according to the rules of syntax, or construction. -- Syn*tac"tic*al*ly, adv.

Connected system or order; union of things; a number of things jointed together; organism. [Obs.] They owe no other dependence to the first than what is common to the whole syntax of beings. Glanvill.

Syntax. [R.] B. Jonson.

Prophylaxis. [Obs.]

Preserving health; prophylactic. [Obs.]

That department of medicine which relates to the preservation of health; prophylaxis. [Obs.]

Having the same degree of heat.

by putting the ingredients together, as contrasted with analysis; thus, water is made by synthesis from hydrogen and oxygen; hence, specifically, the building up of complex compounds by special reactions, whereby their component radicals are so grouped that the resulting substances are identical in every respect with…

One who employs synthesis, or who follows synthetic methods.

To combine by synthesis; to unite.

Of or pertaining to synthesis; consisting in synthesis or composition; as, the synthetic method of reasoning, as opposed to analytical. Philosophers hasten too much from the analytic to the synthetic method; that is, they draw general conclusions from too small a number of particular observations and experiments. Bolin…

In a synthetic manner.

To combine; to unite in regular structure. [R.]

Brevity; conciseness. [R.]

Of or pert. to syntony; specif., designating, or pert. to, a system of wireless telegraphy in which the transmitting and receiving apparatus are in syntony with, and only with, one another. -- Syn*ton"ic*al (#), a. --Syn*ton"ic*al*ly, adv.