ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] Of two bones: Grown together, so firmly united as no longer to move upon each other. Hence of a joint: Stiffened.
1812. H. Browne, Apothec. Vade Mec., 8. The restored action of an anchylosed joint.
1849. Murchison, Siluria, x. 241. The jaws and anchylosed teeth of some small fish.
1875. Blake, Zool., 88. The anchylosed lumbar and sacral vertebræ.
b. fig. Cramped, rigid.
1860. W. Webb, in Med. Times, 15 Sept., 266/1. Mind and body, too, grow so anchylosed, that they will work only in one direction.
