conglutination

1. 1.

   healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones

   Synonymsunion

   Broaderhealing
2. 2.

   the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts

   Synonymscoalescencecoalescencycoalitionconcretion

   Broaderunion

Other forms of conglutination

plural

conglutinations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about conglutination

What does conglutination mean?

conglutination means "healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in conglutination?

conglutination has 6 syllables: con-glu-ti-na-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for conglutination?

Close synonyms include union, coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is conglutination a common word?

conglutination is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.