concrescence

concrescence /kənkres′əns/ [L, concrescere, to be formed] , 1. a growing together; a union of parts originally separate. 2. (in embryology) the flowing together and piling up of cells. 3. (in dentistry) the union of the roots of two adjacent teeth by a deposit of excess cementum.

Concrescence (Mosby, 2008)