To unite by apposition or contact, as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose.
To unite by appositionor contact, as two vessels in an animal body.
It is much oftener attached to a general word in apposition with the proper name: as, #vir clārissimus, M.
Whilst the growth of the malacoma is dependent on intussusception (as in most organic structures capable of imbibing), the growth of the skeleton in all Radiolaria takes place by apposition (see note B).
Afterwards the disk often becomes thickened by apposition of concentric chamber-rings on both flat sides also, so that two to four or more layers are stratified one over the other.
More than nine girdles I have never observed, though there remains the possibility of the apposition of a fourth system owing to the peculiar imperfect character of the growth itself.
They are derived from Cromyosphaera by further appositionof outer cortical shells.
Soreuma may have originated either from Sorolarcus by loss of the central Larnacilla-shell or from Cenolarcus by irregular apposition of new chambers around the lentelliptical central chamber or simple Larcoid-shell.
But here the true cause of the peculiar dome-structure is quite different, not an apposition of new chambers, but the constriction of a cortical shell-like Larnacalpis by two or more constrictions.
Probably Cromyodruppa has arisen from Prunulum by secondary apposition of more cortical envelopes.
Often the central part of the lenticular disk becomes thickened by apposition of such floors or strata, whilst the marginal part remains simple, with one single stratum.
But in tissue-cells, which have not been thus specialized, it would be difficult to believe that nuclear contents can admit of being intimately fused by a mere apposition of cell-walls.
In closing the peritoneum over the cervical stump it is sometimes necessary to bring the edges of the abnormal fold into apposition vertically by a continuous suture.
The opposite flaps of the capsule are brought into apposition by mattress sutures, and the redundant portions of the capsule cut away and the free edges carefully brought together by a continuous suture of thin silk.
These two areas are brought into apposition by means of a strong suture passed through their centre.
The capsule can often be closed in such a way as to bring its walls into apposition and thus obliterate its cavity; it then requires no further attention.
Accurate appositionof the lid border is very essential.
That is, it expresses an idea of apposition or conformity between a subject and predicate.
That the said image or colour is but anapposition unto us of the motion, agitation, or alteration, which the object worketh in the brain, or spirits, or some external substance of the head.
A noun added to another noun to explain its meaning is said to be in apposition to the first noun; as, Mr. Henry, our principal, is sick.
Words or phrases in apposition should be separated from the rest of the sentence by commas; as, Lady Aberdeen, the wife of the Governor of Canada, has gone on an ocean voyage.
The writers of Gaelic seem to have carefully avoided bringing into appositiontwo vowels which belong to different syllables.
Each of these syllables {101} commonly loses the vowel when it comes in apposition with another vowel.
Words in apposition are generally marked off by commas.
But where the words in apposition are used in a limiting or distinguishing sense, the principle of Rule XIV.
But when they agree in case with the objects (filon and filinon), this shows they are nouns in apposition (see pars.
Nouns and Pronouns inapposition have like cases and numbers.
Note in the first example that ĉiuj is in the plural because it is in apposition to ni (see par.
In order to get firm bony union it is necessary to secure accurate apposition of the fragments.
Sculpture composes in single groups or separate figures, but apposition is the element of basso-relievo.
The callous margins of the fissure, formed by the corpora cavernosa and glans, were carefully pared, and, a catheter having been introduced, the raw surfaces were retained in apposition by suture.
The edges of the wound are retained in apposition by means of convoluted suture, as formerly described.
Small loose bodies are generally carried, by the increased lachrymal secretion, along the sulcus formed by the apposition of the eyelids, to the inner canthus, and there discharged.
For urbs and oppidum in apposition with a Locative, see § 169, 4.
Any condition which will prevent or delay this apposition will likewise perpetuate the original embryonal condition of the tube, completely invested by peritoneum and with a free mesocolon.
We have seen that this early adhesion and the resulting effects on the position of caecum and appendix depend on the direct apposition of the colic tube and mesocolon to the dorsal parietal peritoneum.
Usually it appears as an elongated, flattened, more or less distinctly lobulated organ, in close apposition to the duodenum between the layers of the mesoduodenum.
But within the sentence the expression of the logical relations of the clauses is closer and more exact: there is less of apposition and participial structure.
In English the majority of sentences are independent and in apposition to one another; they are laid side by side or slightly connected by the copula.
Words in apposition are set off by commas: "McKinley, the President, was assassinated.
To render them by apposition would we fear not much improve our Maori diction; (though it would certainly be more in accordance with Maori analogy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apposition" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
