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adhesion

In medicine, the abnormal binding of two tissues as a result of inflammation or damage. The moving surfaces of joints or internal organs may merge together if they have been inflamed and tissue fluid has been present between the surfaces.

Adhesions sometimes occur after abdominal operations and may lead to colicky pains and intestinal obstruction.

After pleurisy the two layers of the pleura adhere. Peritoneal adhesions occur after peritonitis, and adhesion of the two layers of the pericardium may follow pericarditis.
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This rigid adhesion to truth, an indispensable requisite in history and travels, destroys the charm of fiction; for all that is necessary to be conveyed to the mind by the latter had better be done by delineations of principles, and of characters in their classes, than by a too fastidious attention to originals.
The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
Attempted drives from east to west- similar to the contrary movements of 1805, 1807, and 1809- precede the great westward movement; there is the same coalescence into a group of enormous dimensions; the same adhesion of the people of Central Europe to the movement; the same hesitation midway, and the same increasing rapidity as the goal is approached.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
"And therefore," said D'Artagnan, to clip the hope which Athos's tacit adhesion had imparted to Mazarin, "we shall not proceed to that violence save in the last extremity.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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