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Agglutination

noun

A clumping of bacteria or red cells when held together by antibodies (agglutinins).

The building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning in the process of combining.

The coalescing of small particles that are suspended in solution; these larger masses are then (usually) precipitated. Synonym: agglutinating activity.

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... patient has typhoid by drawing a drop of his blood into a tube, and adding some fresh living typhoid bacilli to it. If the patient had typhoid he will have begun to form the "typhoid-agglutinating" or "typhoid-paralysing" poison in his blood, and the experiment will result in the "agglutination" (sticking together in a lump) of the typhoid bacilli. And so we prove, in a doubtful case, that the ...

— More Science From an Easy Chair • Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester

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