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(surgery) bursting open of a surgically closed wound
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dehiscence
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (biology) release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue; the natural bursting open at maturity of a fruit or other reproductive body to release seeds or spores or the bursting open of a surgically closed wound
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context botany English) open of an organ by its own means (such as an anther or a seed pod) to release its contents. 2 (context medicine English) A rupture, as with a surgical wound opening up, often with a flow of serous fluid. 3 (context rare English) ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dehiscence \De*his"cence\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]hiscence.] The act of gaping. (Biol.) A gaping or bursting open along a definite line of attachment or suture, without tearing, as in the opening of pods, or the bursting of capsules at maturity so as to emit ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dehiscence is the splitting at maturity along a built-in line of weakness in a plant structure in order to release its contents, and is common among fruits , anthers and sporangia . Sometimes this involves the complete detachment of a part. Structures that ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1828, from Modern Latin dehiscentia , from dehiscentem (nominative dehiscens ), present participle of dehiscere "to gape, open, split down" (of the earth, etc.), from de- (see de- ) + hiscere , inchoative of hiare "to yawn" (see yawn (v.)).
Usage examples of dehiscence.
The pollen sacs of the nettles were ripe, and every now and then the vigil would be enlivened by the dehiscence of these, the bursting of the sacs sounding exactly like the crack of a pistol, and the pollen grains as big as buckshot pattered all about them.
There must, therefore, be a spontaneous bursting, or dehiscence, independent of the assistance of the youngsters and similar to that of the seed-pods of plants.
In these two genera the elaters are attached to a sterile group of cells projecting into the upper end of the capsule, and on dehiscence remain connected with the tips of the valves.
This isolated example thus appears to approach the Bryales in its mode of dehiscence.
Just prior to dehiscence, the pollen nucleus divides to produce a small repro- ductive cell accompanied by a large vegeta- tive cell, both of which are contained within the mature pollen grain.