coaptate

See co- and Latin aptō (“I fasten”).

coaptate (third-person singular simple present coaptates, present participle coaptating, simple past and past participle coaptated)

1. (transitive, chiefly medicine) To join or attach.
   • Henry Johns Berkley, A Treatise on Mental Diseases

     Female patients sometimes tell us that another woman enters her body and coaptates herself to it, especially during the act of coitus.