schindylesis /schin·dy·le·sis/ (skin″dĭ-le´sis) an articulation in which one bone is received into a cleft in another.
schindylesis
schindylesis [shin″dĭ-le´sis]
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 [shin″dĭ-le´sis]
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.
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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