FURCATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does furcation mean? 

• FURCATION (noun)
  The noun FURCATION has 1 sense:

1. the place where something divides into branches

  Familiarity information: FURCATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FURCATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The place where something divides into branches

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

forking; furcation

Hypernyms ("furcation" is a kind of...):

angular shape; angularity (a shape having one or more sharp angles)

Meronyms (parts of "furcation"):

branch; leg; ramification (a part of a forked or branching shape)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "furcation"):

bifurcation (the place where something divides into two branches)

Derivation:

furcate (divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork)

 Context examples 

Recession of the gum that exposes the furcation of a multirooted tooth.

(Furcation Involvement, NCI Thesaurus)