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|Definition=-εως, ἡ, ([[συμφύω]])<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[grow]]ing [[together]], [[natural]] [[junction]], especially of the bones, Hp.''Fract.''37, cf. ''Art.''34; opp. [[ἁφή]], as being not [[mere]] [[contact]], but [[continuity]] of [[substance]], [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Metaphysics|Metaph.]]''1014b22, cf. 1069a12, ''Ph.''227a23; σ. ὀστῶν Id.''HA''518b8; so of bones united, <b class="b3">κατὰ σύμφυσιν</b>, opp. articulation (κατ' ἄρθρον), Gal.2.734, ''PLit.Lond.''167.19 (ii/iii A.D.); of [[attachment]] of [[muscle]]s to [[bone]]s, Gal.2.445,484; ἡ σ. τοῦ [[δέρμα]]τος καὶ τῆς σαρκός Pl.''Ti.''77d, cf. Arist.''HA''547a16, ''PA'' 693b25; <b class="b3">ἡ πρὸς τὴν μήτραν σ. [τοῦ Χορίου]</b> Sor.1.73; [[closing]] or [[healing up]] of an [[injured]] [[tree]], [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''[[Historia Plantarum|HP]]'' 9.2.6; <b class="b3">ἡ σ. καὶ ἡ τάξις</b> [[structure]] and [[arrangement]] of a physical body, Id.''Sens.''79, cf. ''Lap.''11; <b class="b3">ἔντερον συμφύσεις ἔχον</b>, of intestines divided into chambers by constriction, Arist.''HA''507b35; ἡ σ. τοῦ πνεύμονος κατὰ ῥάχιν Aret.''SD''1.9; of the [[tongue]], ib.7.<br><span class="bld">2</span> metaph. of the [[mystic]]'s union with the Supreme Being, Porph.''Abst.''1.29.