synizesis

The union in pronunciation of two adjacent vowels into one syllable without forming a diphthong.

The phase of meiosis in some species in which the chromatin contracts into a mass at one side of the nucleus.

In medicine, closure of the pupil; an obliteration of the pupil of the eye, causing a total loss of vision.

In grammar, the combination into one syllable of two vowels that would not form a diphthong.

An obliteration of the pupil of the eye.

A contraction of two syllables into one; synecphonesis.

An obliteration of the pupil of the eye.

A poetic figure of speech in which two consecutive vowel sounds in the same word are pronounced as a single phoneme so that certain words adhere to a particular poetic meter.

the contraction of chromatin towards one side of the nucleus during the prophase of meiosis