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Meanings of apposition in English

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juxtaposició

The act of positioning close together (or side by side)

juxtaposició
Usage of apposition in English
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The fascia and skin should be brought into accurate apposition by sutures.
Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition.
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Histomorphometry revealed reduced bone-formation and mineral apposition rates, accompanied by decreased osteoblast numbers.
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Cognate SNAREs from two separate membranes zipper to facilitate membrane apposition and fusion.
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Conclusions: Milk supplementation showed positive effects on periosteal and endosteal apposition of cortical bone.
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Such an apposition of circumstances is at any rate suspicious.
The Three Clerks
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All of them together make up the whole of life by just apposition and addition.
Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Ed...
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Words in apposition are set off by commas: "McKinley, the President, was assassinated."
How to Speak and Write Correctly
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Posterior to this the aryepiglottic folds ending posteriorly in the arytenoid eminences are seen in apposition.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy / A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy a...
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In 28 devices the distal end opened fully from the beginning with a complete wall apposition.
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The walls seem in tight apposition, and, at the edges of the slit-like lumen, bulge toward the observer.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy / A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy a...
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This type of penetration resistance is characterized by the apposition of papillae at the sites of plant-pathogen interaction.
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The edges of the wound must be brought into accurate apposition, and secured by one or two stitches.
A Manual of the Operations of Surgery / For the Use of Senior St...
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The comma is omitted when such an apposition is used as a single phrase or a compound name.
Punctuation / A Primer of Information about the Marks of Punctua...
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That sutures should be inserted to keep the edges in apposition, yet not so tightly as to cause ulceration.
A Manual of the Operations of Surgery / For the Use of Senior St...
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That is the true apposition.
Studies and Essays: Censorship and Art
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To be highly reliable, synaptic transmission needs postsynaptic receptors (Rs) in precise apposition to the presynaptic release sites.
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Apposition through the time