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connective

adjective as in combinational

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Foot massagers use different methods to vibrate, stimulate, and pressurize the muscles and connective tissues in the feet.

While others may gaze across the open ocean and see a vast blue nothingness, islanders are more likely to see the realm of voyagers, the connective tissue between far-flung relatives, the waters that birthed their ancestors.

Vancouver city planners sought her advice on how to design a city that mimics the connective patterns of Northwest forests.

This protein gets stuck in cells’ membranes and can’t be recycled for fresh proteins, causing the cells to prematurely age and making blood vessels and connective tissue stiffer, Kleinman says.

He described Arise’s platform as “connective tissue” that linked Arise’s corporate clients with its network of small businesses and their agents.

The liver cells fulfill about 3,000 biochemical functions but they are massively reduced by tough connective tissue.

In that dawn light, Mika is always there in a really connective and supportive way.

Sentences become long and involved; dependent clauses abound; connective words and phrases are frequent.

Generally the vowel e in this situation, is a connective, or introduced merely for the sake of euphony.

A nerve consists of a bundle of such tiny axons, bound together by connective tissue.

Special nerve endings, called the tactile corpuscles, are found there, each inclosed in a sheath or capsule of connective tissue.

They are held together with a tough, stringy material called connective tissue.

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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to connective, such as: combinable, combinative, combinatorial, conjoining, conjugable, and conjugative.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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