before a vowel syndesm-, repr. Gr. σύνδεσμος that which binds together, a ligament, in recent terms of anatomy. Syndesmitis, (a) inflammation of the ligaments; (b) inflammation of the conjunctiva. Syndesmodontoid a. (sb.), applied to the articulation formed by the transverse ligament of the atlas vertebra and the odontoid process of the axis. Syndesmography, description of the ligaments (Dunglison, 1844). Syndesmology, that branch of anatomy that treats of the ligaments. Syndesmosis, the union of two bones by a ligament; hence Syndesmotic a. Syndesmotomy, dissection or surgical section of ligaments.
1848. Dunglison, Med. Lex. (ed. 7), s.v. Ophthalmia, Ophthalmia membranorum [=] Conjunctivitis,… *Syndesmitis. Ibid., Syndesmitis … inflammation of articular ligaments.
1891. Cent. Dict., *Syndesmodontoid adj.
1901. Dorland, Med. Dict. (ed. 2), Syndesmo-odontoid, the posterior of the two atlo-axoid articulations formed between the anterior surface of the transverse ligament and the back of the odontoid process.
1799. Med. Jrnl., II. 400. Elements of Myology and *Syndesmology.
1831. R. Knox, Cloquet’s Anat., 8. The study of anatomy is commonly divided … into several distinct branches,… Osteology … Syndesmology [etc.].
1726. Monro, Anat. Bones, 321. The Rotula … is connected to the Tibia by a strong *Syndesmosis.
1885. Buck’s Handbk. Med. Sci., I. 200/1. False, fibrous, or incomplete, anchylosis (syndesmosis) may be either intra-articular or extra-articular.
1844. Dunglison, Med. Lex. (1848), *Syndesmotomy..., dissection of the ligaments.
1888. Buck’s Handbk. Med. Sci., VI. 778/1. Syndesmotomy, or the subcutaneous division of ligaments, is employed … in the reduction of old dislocations.
