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noun

Adherent n.

One who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church.

That which adheres; an appendage. (R.)

Synonyms: Follower; partisan; upholder; disciple; supporter; dependent; ally; backer.

adjective

Adherent adj.

Sticking; clinging; adhering.

Attached as an attribute or circumstance.

(Bot.) Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals.

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Etymology of 'Adherent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... richly supplied with nerves, is an important organ of sensibility and touch. In some parts it is closely attached to the structures beneath, while in others it is less firmly adherent and rests upon a variable amount of fatty tissue. It thus assists in relieving the abrupt projections and depressions of the general surface, and in giving roundness and symmetry to the entire body. The thickness ...

— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell

... flaccid, and very light. The air-cells of this lung were entirely destroyed, or nearly so, and one of the divisions of the left bronchus opened abruptly into the cavity at the upper part. Both lobes were so completely adherent to each other, from inflammatory action, as to form a continuous sac, containing the above fluid. On examining the internal structure of the cavity, the parenchymatous substance which formed its walls presented a rugged and irregular appearance, ...

— An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis • Archibald Makellar

... that the stricture may be seated in the neck of the sac independent of the internal ring, and also that the duplicature of the contained bowel may be adherent to the neck or other part of the interior, or that firm bands of false membrane may exist so as to constrict the bowel within the sac, are circumstances which require that this should be opened, and the state of its contained ...

— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise

... king journeyed secretly on from the residence of one faithful adherent to another, encountering many perplexities, and escaping narrowly many dangers, until he came at last to the neighborhood of Shoreham, a town upon the coast of Sussex. Colonel Gunter had provided a vessel ...

— History of King Charles II of England • Jacob Abbott

... said of Descartes that he was a spectator rather than an active worker in affairs. He was no hero, no patriot, no adherent of any party. He entered armies, but not from love of a cause; the army was a sphere in which he could closely observe the aspects of human life. He was never married, and probably had little concern with ...

— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern -- Volume 11 • Various

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