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agglutination
  1. The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
  2. Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See agglutinative.
  3. The clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria, usually in response to a particular antibody.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The agglutination of the broken pieces of porcelain was skillfully done by the restoration expert, using a strong adhesive to bond them together seamlessly.”
      “English has a tendency towards isolation, but both agglutination and fusion are also found.”
      “Serology showed no recent mycoplasma, legionella, or rickettsial infection, and a serum cryptococcal latex agglutination test was negative.”
agglutinin
  1. A substance that causes cells to clump.
  2. (specifically) A protein found in cow's milk.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Soybean agglutinin is a tetrameric legume lectin, each of whose subunits are glycosylated.”
      “In mammalian systems, treatment of cells with the lectin wheat germ agglutinin inhibits nuclear protein import.”
      “If agglutinin is present and the test is giving a positive reaction, the bacilli will be collected in large clumps.”
agglutin
  1. (immunology) Any antibody that causes agglutination of cells
agglutinogen
  1. (biochemistry) Any antigen that stimulates the production of an agglutinin
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Classification of blood types based on the presence or absence of an antigen or agglutinogen, Rh, on the surface of the red blood cells.”
      “The substance within the introduced cell which acts as a stimulus to the body cells is called an agglutinogen.”
      “Situation in which the donor has the same agglutinogens on his or red blood cells as the recipient, or has no agglutinogen on his or her red blood cells.”
agglutinant
  1. Any viscous substance which causes agglutination
agglutinability
  1. The quality or degree of being agglutinable.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Factors regulating changes of head-to-head agglutinability in boar spermatozoa during epididymal transit and capacitation in vitro.”
agglutinativity
  1. The quality of being agglutinative.
agglutinativeness
  1. The quality of being agglutinative.
agglutinabilities
  1. plural of agglutinability
agglutinations
agglutinogens
  1. plural of agglutinogen
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Your blood type is a description of what kinds of agglutinogens are present on the surfaces of your own red blood cells.”
      “Both grouping is based on the presence and the absence of agglutinogens and their specific agglutinins.”
      “Group O lacks agglutinogens, but the serum contains both the anti-A and anti-B agglutinins.”
agglutinants
  1. plural of agglutinant
agglutinins
agglutins
  1. plural of agglutin
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