coapt

[ koh-apt ]

verb (used with object)
  1. to bring close together: The surgeons coapted the edges of the wound.

Origin of coapt

1
1560–70; <Latin coapt(āre), equivalent to co-co- + aptāre to put into position, verbal derivative of aptusapt

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