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lentoid (medicine) and confluent (iou)


lentoid (medicine)


lentoid
<cell culture, pathology> Spherical cluster of retinal cells, formed by aggregation in vitro, that has a core of lens like cells inside which accumulate proteins characteristic of normal lens.

The cells concerned derive from retinal glial cells.


confluent (iou)



confluent adjective & noun. L15.
[Latin confluent- pres. ppl stem of confluere, formed as CON- + fluere flow: see -ENT.]
A. adjective.
Coalescing with one another so as to form one continuous mass or surface. L15.
C. Darwin The surrounding dark zones become confluent.
Of streams, roads, etc.: flowing or running together so as to form one, uniting. E17.
A. Geikie Numerous confluent valleys, whose united waters..enter the sea.
Flowing together in a body. E18.
M. Prior The whole ocean's confluent waters swell.
b. noun.
The place where rivers etc. unite. Only in E17.
A stream etc. joining another, spec. one of nearly equal size. M17.
confluently adverb L19.