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adhesine

adhesine is the misspelling of adhesin.

Meaning of adhesin

Noun

adhesin (plural adhesins)

  1. Any of several factors that enable bacteria to adhere to epithelial surfaces as a step towards infection.

Questions about adhesine

What is adhesine the misspelling of?
Adhesine is the misspelling of adhesin.

Words near adhesine in the dictionary

  1. adheses
  2. adhesibilities
  3. adhesibility
  4. adhesible
  5. adhesin
  6. adhesine
  7. adhesines
  8. adhesing
  9. adhesins
  10. adhesiogenesis
  11. adhesiogenic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adhesine (page history and authors); adhesin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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