Definitions | dehiscence |
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- Opening, gaping, in a general sense.
- (botany) The bursting of seed-pods, capsules etc.
- (medicine) A rupture, as with a surgical wound opening up, often with a flow of serous fluid.
Etymology: From Modern Latin dehiscentia (in Linnaeus), from dehiscentem, present participle of dehiscere.
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