adhesion

Noun

• faithful support for a cause or political party or religion
  • attachment to a formal agenda
    
  • adherence to a fat-free diet
    
  • the adhesion of Seville was decisive
    

• the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition
  • the mutual adhesiveness of cells
    
  • a heated hydraulic press was required for adhesion
    

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

• abnormal union of bodily tissues; most common in the abdomen

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  attachment , adherence , adhesiveness , bond