adhesion

Pronunciation key ( əd-hē′zhən ) ( ad-hē′zhən )

ad•he•sion

n.

[Fr.; L. adhaesio < pp. of adhaerere see ADHERE].

1. Sticking together or being stuck together.
2. A sticking together of dissimilar materials.
3. Adherence; to some thing, a devoted attachment.
4. That which adheres.
5. In medicine when normally separate tissues grow together.
6. pl. bands of fibrous tissues by which such tissues are connected.
7. In physics, the force or forces that hold together the dissimilar molecules of substances whose surfaces are in contact: differentiated from cohesion.

References

Biology of Plants, Fourth Edition, Worth Publishers Inc., Stanford University, Peter H. Raven and Helena Curtis, ©1971

Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language (College Edition) ©1955