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adhese

adhese verb: to attach adhesively or via adhesives.

Verb

adhese (third-person singular simple present adheses, present participle adhesing, simple past and past participle adhesed)

  1. To attach adhesively or via adhesives.
    • The windows of some are cemented on but preferably adhesed without any cement (a process of adhesing without cement was developed in the Hilger laboratories:[…]1949, G. F. Lothian, Absorption Spectrophotometry, page 171
    • After adhesing the rubber screen support to a shaved and cleaned area of the torso, the electrode and paste were covered with a piece of adhesive[…]1961, Aerospace Medicine
  2. To unite via adhesion (abnormal union of surface).
    • Q. Freeing up the nerve relates to what? A. Freeing up the nerve would not mean that he would try to carefully dissect the nerve from anything that it may be attached to. Q. Adhesed to? A. Attached or adhesed to. Q. Okay. Why?1977, Boyd v. City of Wyandotte, 402 MICH 98 (1977): Plaintiff-Appellant's Appendix on Appeal, page 353
    • This maneuver preserves whatever rotator cuff might have been encased within the scar tissue that had become adhesed to the acromion. The shaver blade then completes the dissection of the lateral edge of this soft tissue envelope from[…]2012 February 14, Paul C. Brady, Patrick J. Denard, The Cowboy's Companion: A Trail Guide for the Arthroscopic Shoulder Surgeon, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 174

Examples of adhese in a sentence

  • Temperature sensors were adhesed to various parts of the body including the great toe and index finger.1964, Aerospace Medicine:
  • Two inches of styrofoam was adhesed to this using a special epoxy resin from Hysol Corporation, Olean, New York.1965, Martin Marinus Meyer, The Influence of Nutrition and Root Temperature on the Dormant Season Nutrient Content and Spring Growth of...
  • […] was not damaged in any way and additionally that the rug was not supposed to be glued or adhesed to the floor .1975, Southern Reporter: Second series:
  • Not frequently, the large intestine is also tightly adhesed to the ovary.2020 October 1, Michael S. Baggish, Mickey M. Karram, Atlas of Pelvic Anatomy and Gynecologic Surgery E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences...

Forms of adhese

third-person singular presentadheses
present participleadhesing
past participleadhesed
pastadhesed

Origin of adhese

Apparently back-formation from adhesive or adhesion (itself related to adhere); compare Latin adhēsus.

Questions about adhese

What does adhese mean?
Adhese means to attach adhesively or via adhesives.
How do you use adhese in a sentence?
Temperature sensors were adhesed to various parts of the body including the great toe and index finger.
What part of speech is adhese?
Adhese is a verb.
What is the past tense of adhese?
The past tense of adhese is adhesed.

Words near adhese in the dictionary

  1. adhereth
  2. adherin
  3. adhering
  4. adheringly
  5. adherins
  6. adhese
  7. adhesed
  8. adheses
  9. adhesibilities
  10. adhesibility
  11. adhesible

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