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Synostosis
Synostosis Syn`os*to"sis, n. [NL.] Same as Synosteosis.

Meaning of Nostos from wikipedia

- home. Nostos is used today in many forms of literature and movies. In the Odyssey, Homer has nostos being the "return home from Troy by sea." Nostos can...
- Nostos: The Return (Italian: Nostos: Il ritorno) is a 1989 Italian adventure drama film directed by Franco Piavoli, starring Luigi Mezzanotte [it] and...
- Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce. Partially serialized in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December...
- romanized: mêtis, lit. 'cunning intelligence'). He is most famous for his nostos, or "homecoming", which took him ten eventful years after the decade-long...
- (Ancient Gr****: νόστος, nostos) is a central theme of the Odyssey. Anna Bonafazi of the University of Cologne writes that, in Homer, nostos is "return home from...
- nostalgia is a neoclassical compound derived from Gr****, consisting of νόστος (nóstos), a Homeric word meaning "homecoming", and ἄλγος (álgos), meaning "pain";...
- two fates (διχθαδίας κήρας, 9.411). The p****age reads: In forgoing his nostos, he will earn the greater reward of kleos aphthiton (κλέος ἄφθιτον, "fame...
- Charybdis Films L'Odissea (1911) Ulysses (1954) The Return of Ringo (1965) Nostos: The Return (1989) Ulysses' Gaze (1995 Gr****) Sans plomb (2000) O Brother...
- extinct genus of ammonites. The etymology of the name Nostoceras comes from "nostos" meaning return and "ceros" meaning horn,[citation needed] named as such...
- Neighing (The Lilliput Press, 1997) Anaconda Canoe (The Lilliput Press 1999) Nostos (autobiography) (The Lilliput Press 2001) Invoking Ireland: Ailiu Iath n-hErend...