coaptationn.
/kəʊapˈteɪʃən/ a. Adaptation or adjustment of things, parts, etc., to each other; fitting together.
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > [noun] > of two or more things to each other
coaptation1561
co-adaptation1803
coadjustment1876
1561 R. Eden in tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation Pref. sig. ⁋.ii The frame and coaptacion of the bodye of man.
1686 R. Boyle Free Enq. Notion Nature 370 The..Co-aptation of the Spring, Wheels, Ballance, and other Parts.
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiv. Observ. 337 The judicious coaptation and ranging of the words.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Notes & Lect. on Shakespeare (1849) 85 The coaptation and union of the elements.
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun]
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respondency1603
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synchromesh1966
concordancing1976
1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket vi. 291 Cohabitation of place seekes or makes coaptation of manners.
1688 J. Norris Theory & Regulation Love i. ii. 10 A certain Connaturality or Coaptation of the Soul to good.
c. spec. in Surgery. The fitting together or adjustment of the ends of a fractured bone, setting; the replacement of a dislocated bone.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > treatments uniting or replacing parts > [noun] > setting bones or dislocations
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reduction?a1425
bone-setting1587
reposition1588
coaptation1783
reposit1849
fixation1897
1783 P. Pott Chirurg. Wks. (new ed.) I. 377 The general doctrine relative to fractures..Coaptation or setting.
1819 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. (ed. 4) I. i. xxviii. 328 The ends of the fracture may,..be put into a state of coaptation with the greatest ease.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 448/1 Fractures..submitted..to the maintenance of exact co-aptation for months.
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