Symplectic

[sɪmp'lektɪk]

Definition

(a.) 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.

(n.) The symplectic bone.

Edited by Johanna

Definition

adj. placed in or among as if woven together.—n. a bone in the Teleostean fishes which forms the lower ossification of the suspensorium and which articulates below with the quadrate bone by which it is firmly held.

Editor: Vicky