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Inosculate :: Inosculate (v. t.) To unite intimately; to cause to become as one.

Anastomosis :: Anastomosis (n.) The inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries or veins..

Inosculating :: Inosculating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inosculat.

Osculatrix :: Osculatrix (n.) A curve whose contact with a given curve, at a given point, is of a higher order (or involves the equality of a greater number of successive differential coefficients of the ordinates of the curves taken at that point) than that of any other curve of the same kind..

Osculated :: Osculated (imp. & p. p.) of Osculat.

Floscularian :: Floscularian (n.) One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk..

Inosculate :: Inosculate (v. i.) To intercommunicate; to interjoin.

Deosculate :: Deosculate (v. t.) To kiss warmly.

Osculant :: Osculant (a.) Intermediate in character, or on the border, between two genera, groups, families, etc., of animals or plants, and partaking somewhat of the characters of each, thus forming a connecting link; interosculant; as, the genera by which two families approximate are called osculant genera..

Floscular :: Floscular (a.) Flosculous.

Osculant :: Osculant (a.) Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars..

Osculate :: Osculate (v. t.) To kiss.

Osculate :: Osculate (v. i.) To touch closely. See Osculation, 2..

Osculatory :: Osculatory (n.) Same as Pax, 2..

Oscula :: Oscula (pl. ) of Osculu.

Osculatory :: Osculatory (a.) Pertaining to, or having the properties of, an osculatrix; capable of osculation; as, a circle may be osculatory with a curve, at a given point..

Osculate :: Osculate (v. i.) To kiss one another; to kiss.

Evolute :: Evolute (n.) A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent..

Adosculation :: Adosculation (n.) Impregnation by external contact, without intromission..

Inosculate :: Inosculate (v. t.) To unite by apposition or contact, as two vessels in an animal body..

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