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.
Adhesions take place, and, under some small strain, are broken down.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton
Adhesions between the brain and its membranes may produce severe headache and attacks of vertigo, especially on the patient making sudden exertion.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
Adhesions to the wall are sometimes so firm as to be quite inseparable, and thus to necessitate some of the cyst-wall being left adherent.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph
