inosculation vs colligation

inosculation and colligation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
inosculation	Yes	No	No	No
colligation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, colligation is a hypernym of inosculation; that is, colligation is a word with a broader meaning than inosculation:

inosculation: a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous
colligation: the state of being joined together

Other hypernyms of inosculation include conjugation, conjunction, junction.

inosculation (noun)	colligation (noun)
a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous	the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis
	the state of being joined together