schindylesis /schin·dy·le·sis/ (skin″dĭ-le´sis) an articulation in which one bone is received into a cleft in another.
schindylesis
schin·dy·le·sis (sk n d -l  ss)n. A fibrous joint in which the sharp edge of one bone is received into a cleft in the edge of the other, as in the articulation of the vomer with the rostrum of the sphenoid. Also called wedge-and-groove joint, wedge-and-groove suture. |
schindylesis
[skin′dilē′sis]
Etymology: Gk, splintering
an articulation (synarthrosis) of certain bones of the skull in which a thin plate of one bone enters a cleft formed by the separation of two layers of another bone, such as the insertion of the vomer bone into the fissure between the maxillae and the palatine bones.
schindylesis
an articulation in which a thin plate of one bone is received into a cleft in another, as in the articulation of the perpendicular plate of the ethmoid bone with the vomer.
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