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AGGLUTINATION

Volume 1 · 57 words · 1815 Edition

in a general sense, denotes the joining two or more things together, by means of proper glue or cement.

among Physicians, implies the action of reuniting the parts of a body, separated by a wound, cut, &c. It is also applied to the action of such internal medicines as are supposed to be of an agglutinating quality.