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agglutination
[ uh-gloot-n-ey-shuhn ]
noun
- the act or process of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance.
- the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
- that which is united; a mass or group cemented together.
- Immunology. the clumping of bacteria, red blood cells, or other cells, due to the introduction of an antibody.
- Linguistics. a process of word formation in which morphemes, each having one relatively constant shape, are combined without fusion or morphophonemic change, and in which each grammatical category is typically represented by a single morpheme in the resulting word, especially such a process involving the addition of one or more affixes to a base, as in Turkish, in which ev means “house,” ev-den means “from a house,” and ev-ler-den means “from houses.”
agglutination
/ əˌɡluːtɪˈneɪʃən /
noun
- the act or process of agglutinating
- the condition of being agglutinated; adhesion
- a united mass or group of parts
- chem the formation of clumps of particles in a suspension
- biochem proteinaceous particles, such as blood cells and bacteria, that form clumps in antibody–antigen reactions
- immunol the formation of a mass of particles, such as erythrocytes, by the action of antibodies
- linguistics the building up of words from component morphemes in such a way that these undergo little or no change of form or meaning in the process of combination
agglutination
/ ə-glo̅o̅t′n-ā′shən /
- The clumping together of biologic material, such as red blood cells or bacteria, that is suspended in liquid, usually in response to a particular antibody.
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Other Words From
- anti·ag·gluti·nation adjective
- inter·ag·gluti·nation noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of agglutination1
First recorded in 1535–45; agglutinate + -ion
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Example Sentences
As yet, it is the only agglutination reaction which has any practical value for the practitioner.
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Test the vibrio isolated against the serum of an animal immunised to the Vibrio choleræ for agglutination.
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The melting, agglutination, and refining of the metal to fit it for the heavy hammers where it gets nerve.
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The operations of roasting, reduction, fusion, and agglutination are executed in the same furnace.
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The serum of certain humans may cause the destruction or agglutination of blood corpuscles of certain other humans.
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