What's the difference between coition and commixtion?
Coition
Definition:
(n.) A coming together; sexual intercourse; copulation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The spermatozoa were from three experiments: 1) incubation in Hepes buffer, 2) natural coition, and 3) insemination.
(2) Canine chastity belt In 1903, German Baroness Margarethe Johanne Christianne Marie von Heyden and her husband, anxious to maintain the purity of the pedigree of their dogs, designed a device to prevent "coition in the case of bitches and other female animals more particularly for the purpose of preventing cross-breeding".
(3) Theoretically, in female circumcision the genital scaring and dyspareunia may lead to genital ulceration and anal coition, which are co-factors in HIV transmission.
(4) Homologous matings showed that the two lines behaved differently before and during coition and that a mixture of the two behaviour patterns occurred in heterologous crossings.
(5) Different preparations of Ruta graveolens were administered orally to female rats (Days 1-10 post coition) and female hamsters (Days 1-6 post coition).