Lexic.us

Definition of Coapt

1. Verb. Cause to adhere. "The wounds were coapted"

Definition of Coapt

1. Verb. To fit together, especially by mutual adaptation ¹

2. Noun. (organic compound) methyl cyanoacrylate ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Coapt

1. to fit together and make fast [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Coapt

1. To join or fit together. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coapt

Literary usage of Coapt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Traumatic surgery by John Joseph Moorhead (1921)
"Here the plan is to coapt the fragments, and whatever method is adopted, a posterior molded plaster-of-Paris, wire, tin, or wooden box splint is applied ..."

2. A Treatise on Gyrostatics and Rotational Motion: Theory and Applications by Andrew Gray (1918)
"Now let the wave-slope be given by C',cosp< so that the relative slope <£' is </> + C, coapt. ... CT coapt, or C, = - C"/M. Thus we have by (5) ^ = ^-Mco^< ..."

3. Notes on Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism: Intended as a by Joseph John Thomson, James Clerk Maxwell (1893)
"... 0 = (a cos ms2 cos m^ + 6 sin ms2) coapt, along BD& Q = (a C08 m8a CO8 m ^ _|_ c 8jn ms3) coapt, and along EF $ — d cos m fa _ ij ..."

4. Industrial Medicine and Surgery by Harry Edgar Mock (1919)
"plaster will coapt the skin edges of a wound as thoroughly as suturing, ... In large wounds with considerable gaping where it is difficult to coapt the ..."

5. Oxford Loose-leaf Surgery by F. F. Burghard, Allen Buckner Kanavel (1920)
"The sutures when tied should coapt the two ends of the nerve. ... Even in primary suture it is often impossible to coapt the nerve ends unless the extremity ..."

6. Operative surgery, for students and practitioners by John Joseph McGrath (1921)
"If the flexor tendons are divided, in order to coapt the ends and retain them in position with the minimum degree of tension, the joint must be ..."

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