concrescence

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With time acceleration and the concrescence of novelty becoming more apparent to individuals, and as more individuals begin to open to awareness and the increased photon field that we seem to be moving through, we realize that our minds alone cannot keep up with the evolutionary changes.

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  1. noun Biology The growing together of related parts, tissues, or cells.
  2. noun The amassing of physical particles.

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  • Whitehead makes the unfortunate move of describing objects as a concrescence of prehensions. —  Larval Subjects .
  • With time acceleration and the concrescence of novelty becoming more apparent to individuals, and as more individuals begin to open to awareness and the increased photon field that we seem to be moving through, we realize that our minds alone cannot keep up with the evolutionary changes. —  Red Ice Creations
  • Why, for instance, should the blastopore so often appear as a long slit, closing by concrescence, unless this had been the original method of its formation in remote Coelenterate ancestors? —  Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
  • Reichert had seen in the Newt, where certain bones in the roof of the mouth are actually formed by the concrescence of little teeth, (_supra_, p. 163). —  Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
  • Harvey thought that impregnation influenced the female organism as a contagion; and that the blood, which he conceived to be the first rudiment of the germ, arose in the clear fluid of the "colliquamentum" of the ovum by a process of concrescence, as a sort of living precipitate. —  Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02
 

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  1. Latin concrēscentia, from concrēscēns, concrēscent-, present participle of concrēscere, to grow together; see concrete.

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  1. = Spanish concrecencia, from Latin concrescentia, from concrescere, grow together: see concresce.
 

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