1 De institutione musica ('On the Fundaments of Music', beginning of the 6th c.)  Eclectic treatise influenced by the ancient Greek treatises on the theory and ethics of music, such as those of Aristotle and Ptolemy, Pythagoras and Aristoxenus.
hempen, fibrous(adj) having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute. fibrous, sinewy, stringy, unchewable(adj) (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew.
fibrous joint a joint in which the union of bony elements is by continuous intervening fibrous tissue, which makes little motion possible; the three types are suture, syndesmosis, and gomphosis. Called also immovable or synarthrodial joint and synarthrosis. synovial joint that allows movement in only one plane, through the presence of a pair of collateral ligaments that run on either side of the joint. Examples are the elbow and the interphalangeal joints of the digits. The jaw is primarily a hinge joint, but it can also move somewhat from side to side.