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An immovable articulation in which the union is formed by cartilage. -- Syn`chon*dro"si*al, a.

Symphyseotomy.

A concession made for the purpose of retorting with greater force.

Happening at, or belonging to, the same time; synchronous; simultaneous. Dr. H. More.

Happening at the same time; synchronous. Boyle. -- Syn*chron"ic*al*ly, adv.

The concurrence of events in time; simultaneousness.

Of or pertaining to synchronism; arranged according to correspondence in time; as, synchronistic tables.

The act of synchronizing; concurrence of events in respect to time.

in time; to be simultaneous. The path of this great empire, through its arch of progress, synchronized with that of Christianity. De Quincey.

Contemporaneous chronology.

Happening at the same time; simultaneous. -- Syn"chro*nous*ly, adv.

The concurrence of events in time; synchronism. [R.] Geological contemporaneity is the same as chronological synchrony. Huxley.

t or confusion of any kind, as of words in a sentence, or of humors in the eye. Sparkling synchysis (Med.), a condition in which the vitreous humor is softened and contains sparkling scales of cholesterin.

Curved toward the same side in all directions; -- said of surfaces which in all directions around any point bend away from a tangent plane toward the same side, as the surface of a sphere; -- opposed to anticlastic. Sir W. Thomson.

Formed by strata dipping toward a common line or plane; as, a synclinal trough or valley; a synclinal fold; -- opposed to anticlinal.

A synclinal fold.

Synclinal. [R.]

A mountain range owing its origin to the progress of a geosynclinal, and ending in a catastrophe of displacement and upturning. Dana.

Of or pertaining to syncope; resembling syncope.

To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester."