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adhesion (iou) and circumcision (medicine)


adhesion (iou)



adhesion noun. L15.
[French adhesion or Latin adhaesio(n-), from adhaes- pa. ppl stem of adhaerere ADHERE: see -ION.]
The action of adhering to a person, party, tenet, etc. L15.
The action of sticking (together or to something); an instance of this; spec. in Physics, the sticking together of unlike materials (cf. COHESION). M17.
b. The frictional grip of a wheel on a rail, road surface, etc. M19.
Medicine. The union of normally separate parts due to inflammation or injury; a mass of tissue joining normally separate parts; rare benign union of tissue as in healing. M17.

circumcision (medicine)


circumcision
<procedure, surgery> The surgical removal of end of the prepuce of the penis.