ankylosis

Pathology: - stiffening or fixation of a joint as the result of a disease process, with fibrous or bony union across the joint

Related

ankylosing spondylitis, axial spondyloarthritis; Marie Strumpell disease; Bechterew's disease (AS) arthrodesis; joint fusion diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH, Forestier disease, ankylosing hyperostosis of the spine, spondylosis hyperostotica)

General

sign/symptom joint disease; articular disease; arthropathy

References

Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995