σύμφυσις: Difference between revisions

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