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wedge-and-groove joint (medicine)


wedge-and-groove joint


A form of fibrous joint in which the sharp edge of one bone is received in a cleft in the edge of the other, as in the articulation of the vomer with the rostrum of the sphenoid.

Synonym: schindylesis, schindyletic joint, wedge-and-groove suture.