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coapt

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[koh-apt] / koʊˈæpt /

verb (used with object)

  1. to bring close together.

    The surgeons coapted the edges of the wound.

Etymology

Origin of coapt

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

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