adhesions
- plural of adhesion.
Example Sentences
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Adhesions developed after his appendix was removed aboard a submarine off the Algerian Coast.
From Time Magazine Archive
Adhesions, accompanied by displacements, occasionally produce similar deviations, the nature of which is usually easily detected.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
With Regard to the Scirrhosity, or Hardness, and to the Circumstances of Adhesions, I can add nothing to what I have said in § 86 and 87.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
Adhesions take place, and, under some small strain, are broken down.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton
The Pleurisy terminates, like any other inward Inflammation, either by some Evacuation; by an Abscess; in a Mortification; or in a Scirrhosity or hard Tumour; and it often leaves Adhesions in the Breast.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
