conglutination
nounEtymology From con- + glutination.
1
An adhesion, or gluing together.
- The cause is a temperate conglutination; for both bodies are clammy and viscous, and do bridle the deflux of humours to the hurts, without penning them in too much1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- In his own vitals, nucleant, he knew them clasped, the men that were not men's, that were not women's men. And Mrs. Gorman was doubtless the theatre of a similar conglutination.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
2
The agglutination of an antigen, antibody and complement by the addition of a serum agent.