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The property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition
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adhesion
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN cell ▪ This suggests a possible tumour suppressor function for this cell adhesion molecule. ▪ However, the final, as yet small, family of cell adhesion molecules bind to carbohydrates. ▪ Families of cell adhesion molecules ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. abnormal union of bodily tissues; most common in the abdomen a fibrous band of scar tissue that binds together normally separate anatomical structures the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Adhesions are fibrous bands that form between tissues and organs, often as a result of injury during surgery. They may be thought of as internal scar tissue that connects tissues not normally connected.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from French adhésion or directly from Latin adhaesionem (nominative adhaesio ) "a sticking to," noun of action from past participle stem of adhaerare (see adherent (adj.)).\n\n Adhesion is generally used in the material, and adherence in the metaphysical ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adhesion \Ad*he"sion\, n. [L. adhaesio, fr. adhaerere: cf. F. adh['e]sion.] The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as, the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like. Adherence; steady or firm ...
Usage examples of adhesion.
The spinnerets touch it somewhere, anywhere, and that is enough: adhesion is at once restored.
In the long run, continual contact with those threads might produce a certain adhesion and inconvenience the Spider, who must preserve all her agility in order to rush upon the prey before it can release itself.
Rebel broke out the programmer and ran a cleaning pad over the adhesion disks.
Union on the 17th of November, and on the 18th appeared the first article giving the adhesion of the Union, to the Lecompton Constitution.
Union on the 17th of November, and on the 18th appeared the first article giving the adhesion of the Union to the Lecompton Constitution.
Palpation revealed a cystic immobile tumor, extending 2 inches above the umbilicus and apparently fixed by deep adhesions.
Influenza, causing adhesions of the posterior pillars of the fauces, has given rise to anosmia.
On the whole, it is so good that most men who, like myself, are doing poietic work, and who would be just as well off without obedience, find a satisfaction in adhesion.
Popery, contempt of Anglican priestcraft and apostolic succession, and adhesion to the dogma of adult baptism and total immersion.
I could not destroy any of the adhesions which had shut up the pupillar opening.
On arriving in Paris Marshal Ney sent in his adhesion to the Provisional Government, so that when Macdonald returned to Fontainebleau to convey to Napoleon the definitive treaty of the Allies, Ney did not accompany him, and the Emperor expressed surprise and dissatisfaction at his absence.
The causes of barrenness may be obliteration of the canal of the neck of the womb, sealing up of its mouth, or inflammation resulting in adhesion of the walls of the vagina, thus obstructing the passage to the uterus.
One showed a cracked adhesion point where the descent parasail had been attached.
In two of the cases the hysteropexy had been performed over five years before the pregnancy occurred, and, although the bands of adhesion between the fundus and the parietes must have become very tough after so long a period, no special difficulty was encountered.
The recent victories all along the line of women over men in examination-rooms, and their more or less successful ventures in the fields of law, medicine, and newspaper enterprise, would be more appalling to man and encouraging to the progressionists, but for the obstinate though obvious adhesion of the great mass of woman-kind to the trick bequeathed to them by their great-great-grandmothers of trying to look as well as they can.