See Also: Adhesion(medicine)
adhesion(dictionary)
Adhesion(health)
adhesion(dictionary)
adhesion phenomenon(medicine)
fibrous adhesion(medicine)
adhesion molecules(medicine)
focal adhesion(medicine)
interthalamic adhesion(medicine)
primary adhesion(medicine)

adhesion (iou)



adhesion noun. L15.
[French adhesion or Latin adhaesio(n-), from adhaes- pa. ppl stem of adhaerere ADHERE: see -ION.]
The action of adhering to a person, party, tenet, etc. L15.
The action of sticking (together or to something); an instance of this; spec. in Physics, the sticking together of unlike materials (cf. COHESION). M17.
b. The frictional grip of a wheel on a rail, road surface, etc. M19.
Medicine. The union of normally separate parts due to inflammation or injury; a mass of tissue joining normally separate parts; rare benign union of tissue as in healing. M17.