DEHISCENCE
\dɛhˈɪsəns], \dɛhˈɪsəns], \d_ɛ_h_ˈɪ_s_ə_n_s]\
Definitions of DEHISCENCE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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(biology) release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue; the natural bursting open at maturity of a fruit or other reproductive body to release seeds or spores or the bursting open of a surgically closed wound
By Princeton University
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A gaping or bursting open along a definite line of attachment or suture, without tearing, as in the opening of pods, or the bursting of capsules at maturity so as to emit seeds, etc.; also, the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries of animals, for the expulsion of their contents.
By Oddity Software
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A gaping or bursting open along a definite line of attachment or suture, without tearing, as in the opening of pods, or the bursting of capsules at maturity so as to emit seeds, etc.; also, the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries of animals, for the expulsion of their contents.
By Noah Webster.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Dehiscentia, from dehiscere (de, and hiscere 'to gape'), to break open in 'chinks.' Separation of a shut organ along the line of union. A regular and determinate separation, which takes place in a shut organ.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
