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To affect or be affected with anchylosis; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one. [Spelt also ankylose.] Owen.

The union of two or more separate bones to from a single bone; the close union of bones or other structures in various animals.

Angulous. [R.]

A state of being angulous or angular. [Obs.]

Anhelous; panting. [R.]

Same as Anchylose.

Same as Anchylosis.

A disease due to the presence of the parasites Agchylostoma duodenale, Uncinaria (subgenus Necator) americana, or allied nematodes, in the small intestine. When present in large numbers they produce a severe anæmia by sucking the blood from the intestinal walls. Called also miner's anæmia, tunnel disease, brickmaker's…

A division of the Invertebrata, nearly equivalent to the Articulata. It includes the Arthoropoda and Anarthropoda. By some zoölogists it is applied to the former only.

One of the Annulosa.

Of or pertaining to the Annulosa.

A peculiar marine worm. See Enteropneusta, and Tornaria.

Having two callosities or hard spots. Gray.

Blossomy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom.

Without blossoms.

Full of blossoms; flowery.

usa, and especially the A. officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue. Small wild bugloss, the Asperugo procumbens and the Lycopsis arvensis. -- Viper's bugloss, a species of Echium.

Of the callosum.

Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.