conglutination

English

Etymology

con- +‎ glutination

Noun

conglutination (countable and uncountable, plural conglutinations)

1. An adhesion, or gluing together.
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     The cause is a temperate conglutination; for both bodies are clammy and viscous, and do bridle the deflux of humours to the hurts, without penning them in too much

   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

     In his own vitals, nucleant, he knew them clasped, the men that were not men's, that were not women's men. And Mrs. Gorman was doubtless the theatre of a similar conglutination.

2. The agglutination of an antigen, antibody and complement by the addition of a serum agent.

French

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Noun

conglutination f (plural conglutinations)

1. conglutination

Further reading

• “conglutination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.