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Webster 1913 Edition


Symplectic

Sym-plec′tic

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Adj.
[Gr. [GREEK] plaiting together, fr. [GREEK] to plait together.]
(Anat.)
Plaiting or joining together; – said of a bone next above the quadrate in the mandibular suspensorium of many fishes, which unites together the other bones of the suspensorium.
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Noun.
The symplectic bone.