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A clumping of bacteria or red cells when held together by antibodies (agglutinins)
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agglutination
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Agglutination \Ag*glu`ti*na"tion\, n. [Cf. F. agglutination.] The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts. (Physiol.) Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts. 2 Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See agglutinative. 3 The clumping together ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The Pyloriset detects IgG antibodies by agglutination , using Latex particles coated with acid extracted antigen of H pylori.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a clumping of bacteria or red cells when held together by antibodies (agglutinins) the building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning in the process of combining the coalescing of small particles that are suspended in solution; ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Agglutination is a process in linguistic morphology derivation in which complex words are formed by stringing together morphemes without changing them in spelling or phonetics. Languages that use agglutination widely are called agglutinative languages . ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from Latin agglutinationem (nominative agglutinatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of agglutinare "fasten with glue," from ad- "to" (see ad- ) + glutinare "to glue," from gluten "glue," from PIE *glei- (see glue (n.)). Philological sense ...
Usage examples of agglutination.
But the fat was still there, hiding, scrambled-egg agglutinations of cholesterol.
The patient died the fourth day after the operation, from peritonitis, and an autopsy showed the perforation and agglutination of the two intestinal curvatures.
Max Mueller goes further, and asserts that what is called the process of agglutination in the Turanian languages is the same as what has been named polysynthesis in America.
It is not polysynthetic, at any rate, not more so than French, and its words undergo no such alteration by agglutination as in Aztec and Algonkin.
It becomes a club-footed cripple, its feet adherent by agglutination or fusion to a rock or other and larger mollusc, dead or alive.
Formless protoplasm able to mock and reflect all forms and organs and processes - viscous agglutinations of bubbling cells - rubbery fifteen-foot spheroids infinitely plastic and ductile - slaves of suggestion, builders of cities - more and more sullen, more and more intelligent, more and more amphibious, more and more imitative!