To fit or adapt two things together perfectly, especially in medical contexts like bones or wound edges.
From Latin co- (together) + aptare (to fit or adjust), from aptus meaning fit or suitable. Medical usage became standard in anatomy and surgery.
Surgeons still use this exact term when describing how they carefully align broken bone fragments—it's a word that's been essential to medicine for over 500 years.
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