coaptate

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English

Etymology

See co- and Latin aptō (“I fasten”).

Verb

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  1. (transitive, chiefly medicine) To join or attach.
    • Henry Johns Berkley, A Treatise on Mental Diseases
      Female patients sometimes tell us that another woman enters her body and coaptates herself to it, especially during the act of coitus.
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