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Agglutination   Listen
Agglutination

noun
1.
A clumping of bacteria or red cells when held together by antibodies (agglutinins).
2.
The building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning in the process of combining.
3.
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



... drawing a drop of his blood into a tube, and adding some fresh living typhoid bacilli to it. If the patient had typhoid he will have begun to form the "typhoid-agglutinating" or "typhoid-paralysing" poison in his blood, and the experiment will result in the "agglutination" (sticking together in a lump) of the typhoid bacilli. And so we prove, in a doubtful case, that the patient ...
— More Science From an Easy Chair • Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester
... civilly, readily go and bring the precious teeth, some half rotten, or gnawed by the teeth of a rodent called dezi. I think that mad naturalists name it Aulocaudatus Swindermanus, or some equally wise agglutination of syllables.... My chronometers are all dead; I hope my old watch was sent to Zanzibar; but I have got no letters for years, save some, three years old, at Ujiji. I have an intense and sore longing to finish and retire, and trust that the Almighty may permit ...
— The Personal Life Of David Livingstone • William Garden Blaikie


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