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Definition of Confluent
1. Noun. A branch that flows into the main stream.
Generic synonyms: Branch
Derivative terms: Feed
Antonyms: Distributary
2. Adjective. Flowing together.
Definition of Confluent
1. a. Flowing together; meeting in their course; running one into another.
2. n. A small steam which flows into a large one.
Definition of Confluent
1. Adjective. (meteorology) (Of wind) which converges, especially when viewed on a weather chart ¹
2. Adjective. (biology) Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass ¹
3. Adjective. (geometry) (Of a triangle) which is exactly the same size as another triangle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Confluent
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Confluent
1. 1. Joining; running together; denoting certain skin lesions which become merged, forming a patch; denoting a disease characterised by lesions which are not discrete, or distinct one from the other. 2. Denoting a bone formed by the blending together of two originally distinct bones. Origin: L. Con-fluo, to flow together (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confluent
Literary usage of Confluent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Febrile Diseases: Including the Various Species of Fever, and by Alexander Philips Wilson Philip (1813)
"Of the Symptoms of the confluent Small-pox. ... vomiting, &c. more uniformly
attend, and are experienced to a greater degree, in the confluent than in the ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1869)
"it was confluent ; in all of them recovery ensued. In the 14 cases which had not
been successfully vaccinated, the disease occurred at the age of 6, 9, 12, ..."
3. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1856)
"The object of my troubling you with this note, is to suggest the use of opium in
confluent variola. I have seen a few grains of Dover's powder, ..."
4. Handbook of the Ferns of British India, Ceylon and the Malay Peninsula by Richard Henry Beddome (1883)
"Sori marginal, at first oblong or roundish, soon confluent into a continuous
marginal line, without a distinct involucre, but with the edge of the frond ..."
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