Synovitis
(||Syn`o*vi"tis) n. [NL. See Synovia, -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the synovial membrane.
Synpelmous
(Syn*pel"mous) a. [Pref. syn- + the sole of the foot.] (Zoöl.) Having the two main flexor
tendons of the toes blended together.
Synsepalous
(Syn*sep"al*ous) a. [Pref. syn- + sepal.] (Bot.) Having united sepals; gamosepalous.
Syntactic
(Syn*tac"tic Syn*tac"tic*al) a. [Cf. G. putting together. See Syntax.] Of or pertaining to
syntax; according to the rules of syntax, or construction. — Syn*tac"tic*al*ly, adv.
Syntax
(Syn"tax) n. [L. syntaxis, Gr. fr. to put together in order; sy`n with + to put in order; cf. F. syntaxe.
See Syn-, and Tactics.]
1. Connected system or order; union of things; a number of things jointed together; organism. [Obs.]
They owe no other dependence to the first than what is common to the whole syntax of beings.
Glanvill. 2. That part of grammar which treats of the construction of sentences; the due arrangement of words in
sentences in their necessary relations, according to established usage in any language.
Syntaxis
(||Syn*tax"is) n. Syntax. [R.] B. Jonson.
Synteresis
(Syn`te*re"sis) n. [NL., fr. Gr. preservation, fr. to preserve; sy`n with + to guard.]
1. (Med.) Prophylaxis. [Obs.]
2. (Metaph.) Conscience viewed as the internal repository of the laws of duty. Whewell.
Synteretic
(Syn`te*ret"ic) a. (Med.) Preserving health; prophylactic. [Obs.]
Synteretics
(Syn`te*ret"ics) n. (Med.) That department of medicine which relates to the preservation of
health; prophylaxis. [Obs.]
Synthermal
(Syn*ther"mal) a. [Pref. syn- + thermal.] Having the same degree of heat.
Synthesis
(Syn"the*sis) n.; pl. Syntheses [L., a mixture, properly, a putting together, Gr. fr. to place
or put together; sy`n with + to place. See Thesis.]
1. Composition, or the putting of two or more things together, as in compounding medicines.
2. (Chem.) The art or process of making a compound by putting the ingredients together, as contrasted
with analysis; thus, water is made by synthesis from hydrogen and oxygen; hence, specifically, the building
up of complex compounds by special reactions, whereby their component radicals are so grouped that
the resulting substances are identical in every respect with the natural articles when such occur; thus,
artificial alcohol, urea, indigo blue, alizarin, etc., are made by synthesis.
3. (Logic) The combination of separate elements of thought into a whole, as of simple into complex
conceptions, species into genera, individual propositions into systems; — the opposite of analysis.
Analysis and synthesis, though commonly treated as two different methods, are, if properly understood,
only the two necessary parts of the same method. Each is the relative and correlative of the other.
Sir
W. Hamilton.
