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Crasis
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noun
Crasis
n.
1.
(Med.) A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament.
2.
(Gram.) A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a diphthong; synaeresis; as, cogo for coago.
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