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Agglutination

noun

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; these larger masses are then (usually) precipitated. Synonym: agglutinating activity.

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"Agglutination" Quotes from Famous Books

... littleness. In the same tongue, a youth is called pilape, a word compounded from the first part of pilsit, innocent, and the latter part of lenape, a man. Thus, it will be observed, a number of parts of words are taken and thrown together, by a process which has been happily termed agglutination, so as to form one word, conveying a complicated idea. There is also an elaborate system of inflection; in nouns, for instance, there is one kind of inflection to express the presence or absence of vitality, and ...

— Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation • Robert Chambers

... the constituents of the rete Malpighii which have grown into the corium pass through a degeneration precisely similar to that undergone by cells shed at desquamation, or those which eventually give rise by their agglutination to a hair. ...

— Diseases of the Horse's Foot • Harry Caulton Reeks

... Crystals increase by the greater attraction of their sides. Accretion by chemical precipitations, by welding, by pressure, by agglutination. II. Hunger, digestion, why it cannot be imitated out of the body. Lacteals absorb by animal selection or appetency. III. The glands and pores absorb nutritious particles by animal selection. Organic particles of ...

— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin