(intransitive, botany) To burst or split open at definite places, discharging seeds, pollen or similar content. / (intransitive, medicine) To rupture or break open, as a surgical wound.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehisce

simple past tense and past participle of dehisce

(medicine) Of or pertaining to dehiscence, i.e., a rupture, as with a surgical wound opening up, often with a flow of serous fluid / (botany) Which dehisces or presents dehiscence

(botany) Opening of an organ by its own means (such as an anther or a seed pod) to release its contents. / (medicine) A rupture, as with a surgical wound opening up, often with a flow of serous fluid.

plural of dehiscence

present participle of dehisce