For as long as Danila has been alive, those two things have fused together, seemingly inexorably.
Skeletal muscle tissue is composed of elongated bundles of myofibers, which are individual muscle cells (myoblasts) that have fused together.
By his mid-20s, his vertebrae had fused together, his torso been thrust rigidly forward and his back muscles replaced with solid bone.
If the reaction is more severe and prolonged, some of the activated macrophages will have fused together to form large cells containing several nuclei.
They're what's known as "stripe karst," which means layers of marble, schist and quartzite that, over millenniums of pressure and heat, have fused together to form a stripelike pattern.
The Yale paleontologists tested this proposition by looking at how much the specimens' skulls had fused together — a marker of maturity, they said — and concluded that many Triceratops skulls exhibit extensive cranial fusion.
In collaboration with Philips, a Dutch electronics giant, the researchers have fused together X-ray, ultrasound and magnetic-resonance scanners that provide detailed images of people's innards in real time.
(Hagel realizes that if he were to try a national run, he might be called on to explain his choices in religion to Christian groups that are part of the conservative coalition his party has fused together. He doesn't especially like the idea.
Those are his masterpieces: the two movies that I can't not watch when they turn up on TV, and the two occasions on which his pedantry and his paranoia have fused together, engrossing us in a crazed aggregation of detail.
By easing you through the transition from one level to the other in just three quick turns along the stair, Mr. Moneo has fused together two disparate worlds — the campus and the street outside — and created places of intense social communion.
