concrescence

American  

[kon-kres-uhns] / kɒnˈkrɛs əns /

noun

Biology.

1. a growing together, as of tissue or embryonic parts; coalescence.

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concrescence British  

/ kənˈkrɛsəns /

noun

1. biology a growing together of initially separate parts or organs

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Other Word Forms

• concrescent adjective

Etymology

Origin of concrescence

1600–10; < Latin concrēscentia, equivalent to concrēscent- (stem of concrēscēns, present participle of concrēscere to harden, set; con-, crescent ) + -ia -ia; -ence

Example Sentences

He lugs the “great concrescence of blooms” into the restaurant, where a concerned man says to him, “You look like you’ve been in a fight with some squirrels or something.”

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2014

The Cephalopoda are mainly characterized by the concrescence of the foot and head.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various

Why, for instance, should the blastopore so often appear as a long slit, closing by concrescence, unless this had been the original method of its formation in remote Cœlenterate ancestors?

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

In the embryos of higher Vertebrates it closes in the centre, the point of concrescence forming the tympanic membrane.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 by Various