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How to pronounce adhesion
IPA transcription: [æd'hiʒən]
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Noun
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faithful support for a cause or political party or religion
“attachment to a formal agenda”
“adherence to a fat-free diet”
“the adhesion of Seville was decisive”
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abnormal union of bodily tissues; most common in the abdomen
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a fibrous band of scar tissue that binds together normally separate anatomical structures
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the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition
“the mutual adhesiveness of cells”
“a heated hydraulic press was required for adhesion”
Usage examples
- Copper also easily reacts with oxygen but its oxides have poor adhesion properties.
- No adhesion failures have been reported since the switchover, even in heavy rain.
- It also functions as an adhesion protein, involved in cell attachment and wound healing.
- Connection between focal adhesions and proteins of the extracellular matrix generally involves integrins.
- Laparoscopy for lysis of adhesions may be performed for refractory pain.
- The Mallorcan manifesto provoked Menorca’s adhesion with an answer from Menorca.
- However, the adhesions may recur over time.
- The first of the line is operated by conventional rail adhesion.
- Protozoans express multiple adhesion molecules.