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dehiscence Tweet Definition of dehiscence Like Definition of dehiscence on Facebook
noun 
  1. Opening, gaping, in a general sense.
  2. (botany) The bursting of seed-pods, capsules etc.
  3. (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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