[
US
/kɑnˈfɫuənt/
]
ADJECTIVE
- flowing together
NOUN
- a branch that flows into the main stream
How To Use confluent In A Sentence
- Immediately above the anterior perforated substance, the pear-shaped head of the caudate nucleus is confluent with the putamen of the lentiform nucleus.
- Coblentz had its ancient name of Confluentes, from its standing at the junction of the two rivers. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: Caligula
- For irradiation, cells were cultured in Petri dishes and synchronized by contact inhibition in confluent cultures.
- All passage 2 cells became confluent within 7-10 days, at which point an ALI was established.
- This duplication may either be accounted for on the theory of chorisis above alluded to, or by supposing that the extra corolline whorl is due to a series of confluent petalodic stamens; that the latter is the true explanation, in certain cases at least, is shown by some flowers of Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
- Body black, with large, dense, not very profound punctures; elytra with the punctures towards the suture longitudinally confluent; a sub - lunate or triangular, dull rufous spot rather behind the middle of each elytrum; tergum with the punctures not smaller at the posterior mar - gins of the segments; feet dirty yellowish; thighs blackish above — Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
- Diabetic necrobiosis typically causes discrete pretibial plaques, not the confluent skin changes seen in this patient.
- In my former cases the pustule produced by the insertion of the virus was more like one of those which are so thickly spread over the body in a bad kind of confluent smallpox. On Vaccination Against Smallpox
- Ironically, it is the public health discourse that has given the debate a new twist, confluent with the new discourse of economic efficiency and quality management.
- May not you and I be confluent in a higher consciousness, and confluently active there, tho we now know it not? A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
