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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
coaptation /ˌkəʊapˈteɪʃ(ə)n/

▶noun

1 the adaptation of things or people to each other.

2 Medicine the drawing together of the separated tissue in a wound or fracture.

– origin C16: from late L. coaptatio(n-), from coaptare (from aptus ‘apt’).

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