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• n  an abnormal adhesion of two or more structures
• n  a growing together of parts or structures

• But when a female becomes pregnant, the symphysis somehow dissolves, the opening widens.
• But what the blouson obscures of the chest, it more than makes up for by leaving off the standard modest skirt, affording emphasis at the lower symphysisan alternative for .
• After dissecting a trophy, Maturin triumphantly announces, "In the frigate-bird the symphysis of the furcula coalesces with the carina and the upper end of each ramus with the .