a. [f. SYNOVIA: see -AL.] Pertaining to, consisting of, containing, or secreting synovia.
1756. C. Lucas, Ess. Waters, I. 184. The Gout is an obstruction of the synovial vessels.
1767. Gooch, Treat. Wounds, I. 437. Wounds, that enter the joints,… will generally afford a larger synovial discharge.
1808. Barclay, Muscular Motions, 436. Had a tendon been substituted, we should naturally suppose … that it would have been surrounded with synovial membrane.
1846. G. E. Day, trans. Simon’s Anim. Chem., II. 416. The synovial fluid is viscid, transparent, of a yellow or reddish colour, faintly saline.
1864. Owen, Power of God, 23. A … joint … with the co-adjusted surfaces covered by smooth cartilage, and lubricated by joint-oil, retained and secreted by a synovial capsule.
b. transf. Occurring in or affecting a synovial membrane.
1846. Brittan, trans. Malgaigne’s Man. Oper. Surg., 83. Synovial cysts.
1879. St. George’s Hosp. Rep., IX. 776. li is estimated that 85 per cent of the cases of synovial inflammation occur in the knee.
1886. Fagge, Princ. Med., II. 529. Synovial rheumatism.
Hence Synovially adv., by means of synovia, or of a joint containing synovia.
1870. Flower, Osteol. Mamm., x. 135. A small bony nodule … which is articulated synovially to the upper corner of the outer extremity of the basihyal.
