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- uncountableThe congenital (or sometimes developmental) fusion of organs of the same type.
When connation does not exist the parts are said to be Distinct or Eleutherous.
1895, Essentials of vegetable pharmacognosy, page 184 more examples
There is no connation whatever; there is no Sternum at any time, and no hæmapophyses; nothing, indeed, but membrane-bones formed between the corium and the membrane lining the abdominal cavity.
1868, William Kitchen Parker, A Monograph on the Structure and Development of the Shoulder-girdle and Sternum in the Vertebrata, page 133The family history of connation was elicited, and radiographs were taken of the patients.
1971, Charles Goodliffe Darlington, George W. Wilson, The Year Book of Dentistry - Volume 1971, page 74For these reasons more general terms are also used, such as double teeth or connation (meaning developed or born together) , which describe the appearance of the anomaly with no implication regarding its aetiology.
1993, J. V. Soames, J. C. Southam, Oral Pathology, page 6The carpels show various degrees of congenital or postgenital connation (Gut 1966; Ramp 1988).
2010, Klaus Kubitzki, Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Sapindales, Cucurbitales, Myrtaceae, page 279 - uncountableThe learned impulse to behave in a certain way in response to specific stimulii.
It is difficult to change one's connation, because connation needs a lot of inputs.
2012, Minxue Huang, Xiaoliang Feng, Chao Wang, “Research on the Difference of Attitudinal Changes between Ambivalent Consumers”, in Anne Xie, Xiong Huang, editors, Advances in Computer Science and Education, page 1425 more examples
There are two forms of control; one is at the point of cognizance or recognition of the situation. If the individual waits until connation comes about and energy flows with all its power into the organism, control is difficult, if not impossible.
1929, Report of the Proceedings of the 26th Meeting of the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf, page 129The classical threefold division of psychology into cognition, affection and connation has been completely abandoned in the psychology of personal constructs.
1977, Donald Bannister, New Perspectives in Personal Construct Theory, page 96Sometimes we wax philosophical and speculate that explanatory style reflects one's strength of will, reviving a long-dormant psychology of connation. Some people are passive and listless in the face of challenge, whereas other people are vigorous and active.
2014, Gregory McClell Buchanan, Martin E.P. Seligman, Explanatory Style, page 11Attitudes based on connation (intentions and actions) usually result from personal experience or behavioral intent.
2015, Geoffrey Paul Lantos, Consumer Behavior in Action“Affectivity is the broader concept of which volition and connation are only one aspect” (Jung, 1907/1976, p. 38).
2018, David Garfield, Unbearable Affect: A Guide to the Psychotherapy of Psychosis
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