coapt

coapt
To join or fit together.

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co·apt kō-'apt vt to close or fasten together: cause to adhere <the margins of the wound were then closely \coapted with sutures (Biol. Abstracts)>

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co·apt (ko-aptґ) [L. coaptare] to join together, as the edges of a wound or the ends of a fractured bone.

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