See Also: concrescence(medicine)
concrescence(dictionary)

concrescence (iou)



concrescence noun. E17.
[from CON- + -crescence, after excrescence etc.]
Growth by assimilation. Only in E17.
A concretion. Now rare or obsolete. E17.
Biology. The coalescence or growing together of parts originally separate; spec. that of the lips of the blastopore to form the body of an embryo. L19.
concrescent adjective growing together E20.