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connation

connation noun: the congenital (or sometimes developmental) fusion of organs of the same type.

Noun

connation (uncountable)

  1. The congenital (or sometimes developmental) fusion of organs of the same type.
    • There is no connation whatever; there is no Sternum at any time, and no hæmapophyses; nothing, indeed, but membrane-bones formed between the corium and the membrane lining the abdominal cavity.1868, William Kitchen Parker, A Monograph on the Structure and Development of the Shoulder-girdle and Sternum in the Vertebrata, page 133
    • When connation does not exist the parts are said to be Distinct or Eleutherous.1895, Essentials of vegetable pharmacognosy, page 18
  2. The learned impulse to behave in a certain way in response to specific stimulii.
    • There are two forms of control; one is at the point of cognizance or recognition of the situation. If the individual waits until connation comes about and energy flows with all its power into the organism, control is difficult, if not impossible.1929, Report of the Proceedings of the 26th Meeting of the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf, page 129
    • The classical threefold division of psychology into cognition, affection and connation has been completely abandoned in the psychology of personal constructs.1977, Donald Bannister, New Perspectives in Personal Construct Theory, page 96

Examples of connation in a sentence

  • The family history of connation was elicited, and radiographs were taken of the patients.1971, Charles Goodliffe Darlington, George W. Wilson, The Year Book of Dentistry - Volume 1971, page 74:
  • The carpels show various degrees of congenital or postgenital connation (Gut 1966; Ramp 1988).2010, Klaus Kubitzki, Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Sapindales, Cucurbitales, Myrtaceae, page 279:
  • It is difficult to change one's connation, because connation needs a lot of inputs.2012, Minxue Huang, Xiaoliang Feng, Chao Wang, “Research on the Difference of Attitudinal Changes between Ambivalent Consumers”, in Anne...
  • Sometimes we wax philosophical and speculate that explanatory style reflects one's strength of will, reviving a long-dormant psychology of connation.2014, Gregory McClell Buchanan, Martin E.P. Seligman, Explanatory Style, page 11:

Questions about connation

What does connation mean?
Connation means the congenital (or sometimes developmental) fusion of organs of the same type.
How do you use connation in a sentence?
The family history of connation was elicited, and radiographs were taken of the patients.
What part of speech is connation?
Connation is a noun.

Words near connation in the dictionary

  1. connate
  2. connate-perfoliate
  3. connated
  4. connately
  5. connateness
  6. connation
  7. connative
  8. connatural
  9. connaturalise
  10. connaturalised
  11. connaturalises

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