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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adhesion
noun
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■ 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 Many different cell adhesion molecules have been described.
molecule
▪ Flexibility and the location of ligand-binding sites close to the top of adhesion molecules may be a general feature of their organization.
▪ Special molecules called adhesion molecules guide the migration of developing neurons and help them to make stable connections to other neurons.
▪ 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.
▪ An altered expression of such adhesion molecules may influence the aggressiveness of local infiltrative growth and metastasis in human cancers.
▪ Families of cell adhesion molecules Many different cell adhesion molecules have been described.
▪ Cell adhesion and disease adhesion molecule deficiency A number of rare diseases result from defects in adhesion molecules.
platelet
▪ The earliest finding is the platelet adhesion to collagen fibres followed by aggregation and formation of a platelet plug.
▪ Platelet-adhesion studies Early studies of platelet function in diabetes used in vitro tests of platelet adhesion.
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▪ An alternative might be interference with bacterial adhesion by pathogenic Escherichia coli, which have abnormal adherence in ulcerative colitis.
▪ He adds that the line between accession and adhesion is poorly defined.
▪ I was impressed by the good adhesion and grip of the Vibram soles, performing well even in wet and slippery conditions.
▪ The adhesion science and technology chapter includes adhesives and coatings, of course, but is mainly concerned with metal surface analysis.
▪ The Vibram sole unit could do with a little more rigidity for scrambling, but provides good adhesion for walking on all surfaces.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adhesion

Adhesion \Ad*he"sion\, n. [L. adhaesio, fr. adhaerere: cf. F. adh['e]sion.]

  1. 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.

  2. Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, adhesion to error, to a policy.

    His adhesion to the Tories was bounded by his approbation of their foreign policy.
    --De Quincey.

  3. Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent.

    To that treaty Spain and England gave in their adhesion.
    --Macaulay.

  4. (Physics) The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.

  5. (Med.) Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.

  6. (Bot.) The union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant.

    Syn: Adherence; union. See Adherence.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
adhesion

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\nAdhesion is generally used in the material, and adherence in the metaphysical sense.

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Wiktionary
adhesion

n. 1 The ability of a substance to stick to an unlike substance. 2 Persistent attachment or loyalty. 3 An agreement to adhere. 4 (context medicine English) An abnormal union of surface by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process. 5 (Biochemistry) The binding of a cell to a surface or substrate.

WordNet
adhesion
  1. n. abnormal union of bodily tissues; most common in the abdomen

  2. a fibrous band of scar tissue that binds together normally separate anatomical structures

  3. the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition [syn: adhesiveness, adherence, bond]

  4. faithful support for a religion or cause or political party [syn: attachment, adherence]

Wikipedia
Adhesion

frog on a wet vertical glass surface.

Adhesion is the tendency of dissimilar particles or surfaces to cling to one another ( cohesion refers to the tendency of similar or identical particles/surfaces to cling to one another). The forces that cause adhesion and cohesion can be divided into several types. The intermolecular forces responsible for the function of various kinds of stickers and sticky tape fall into the categories of chemical adhesion, dispersive adhesion, and diffusive adhesion. In addition to the cumulative magnitudes of these intermolecular forces, there are certain emergent mechanical effects.

Adhesion (medicine)

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.

Adhesion (disambiguation)

Adhesion is the tendency of certain dissimilar molecules to cling together.

Adhesion may also refer to:

In life sciences and medicine
  • Adhesion (medicine), a fibrous band that forms between tissues and organs
  • Cell adhesion, the binding of a cell to another cell or to a surface or matrix
  • Focal adhesion, a type of macromolecular assembly in cell biology
  • Interthalamic adhesion, a band connecting the brain's two thalami
In engineering
  • Rail adhesion, a type of railway
In law
  • Adhesion contract

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.