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.all-and-socket joint a synovial joint in which the rounded or spheroidal surface of one bone (the âballâ) moves within a cup-shaped depression (the âsocketâ) on another bone, allowing greater freedom of movement than any other type of joint. See illustration.