adhesion

noun

faithful support for a cause or political party or religion

the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition

a fibrous band of scar tissue that binds together normally separate anatomical structures

abnormal union of bodily tissues

Roots

haereohes- · Latin · stick, cling

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