dehisce

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In addition, sutured areas may dehisce, or the wound edges may not oppose perfectly.

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  1. intransitive verb Botany To open at definite places, discharging seeds, pollen, or other contents, as the ripe capsules or pods of some plants.
  2. intransitive verb Medicine To rupture or break open, as a surgical wound.

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  1. Latin dehīscere : dē-, de- + hīscere, to split, inchoative of hiāre, to be open.

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  1. = Italian deiscere, from Latin dehiscere, gape, open, from de, off, + hiscere, gape, yawn, akin to hiare, yawn: see hiatus and yawn.
 

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