concrescence (redirected from concrescent)

concrescence /con·cres·cence/ (kon-kres´ens)

1. a growing together of parts originally separate.

2. in embryology, the flowing together and piling up of cells.

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con·cres·cence (kn-krsns)

n.

The growing together of separate parts. Also called coalescence.

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concrescence

[kənkres′əns]

Etymology: L, concrescere to be formed

1 a growing together; a union of parts originally separate.

2 (in embryology) the flowing together and piling up of cells.

3 (in dentistry) the union of the roots of two adjacent teeth by a deposit of cementum.

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concrescence (känkres´ns),

n the union of two teeth after eruption, by the fusion of their cementum surfaces.

Concrescence.

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concrescence

a growing together of parts originally separate.