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; see con-, crescent) + -ia -ia; see -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

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

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