Inosculation
31anastomosis — n. (Bot. and Anat.) Inosculation …
32absorption — n 1. sucking up, drawing up or in, taking up or in, osmosis; drinking up or in, imbibition; sponging, sponging up, soaking up, blotting up, sopping up; digestion, ingestion, ingurgitation; Physical Chem. adsorption. 2. consuming, consumption,… …
33osculation — n 1. kiss, Inf. buss, Inf. smack, Inf. smooch, Inf. peck; kissing, Inf. smooching, Inf. making out, Inf. fooling around, necking, Inf. spooning. 2. close contact, touch, taction, tangency, contiguity; clasp, grip, hug, embrace; connection, link,… …
34penetration — n 1. incision, cutting, piercing; puncture, perforation; impalement, transfixion, skewering; ingress, entrance, entry, ingoing, incoming, influx, inflow; permeation, pervasion, saturation, inosculation, interosculation, interpenetration;… …
35permeation — n penetration, perforation, entrance, entry, passing through; osmosis, blending, fusing, inosculation, interosculation; spreading, diffusion, overspreading, pervasion, interpenetration, infiltration, invasion, overrunning, saturation; imbuement,… …
36pervasion — n permeation, saturation, diffusion, dissemination; penetration, interpenetration, inosculation, interosculation; imbuement, instillment, infusion, suffusion, transfusion, infiltration, impregnation; osmosis …
37inosculate — [c]/ɪnˈɒskjuleɪt/ (say in oskyoohlayt) verb (inosculated, inosculating) –verb (t) 1. to unite by openings, as arteries in anastomosis. 2. to connect or join so as to make continuous, as fibres. –verb (i) 3. to open into one another. 4. to unite… …
38inosculate — v.i.,v.t. unite; combine; blend. ♦ inosculation, n …
39inosculate — [in äs′kyo͞o lāt΄] vt., vi. inosculated, inosculating [ IN 1 + OSCULATE] 1. a) to join together by openings at the ends: said of arteries, ducts, etc. b) to intertwine: said of vines, etc. 2. to join, blend, or unite …
40colligation — noun 1. the state of being joined together • Syn: ↑junction, ↑conjunction, ↑conjugation • Derivationally related forms: ↑colligate • Hypernyms: ↑union, ↑unification …
