ADHERENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adherence mean? 

• ADHERENCE (noun)
  The noun ADHERENCE has 2 senses:

1. faithful support for a cause or political party or religion

2. the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition

  Familiarity information: ADHERENCE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADHERENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Faithful support for a cause or political party or religion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

adherence; adhesion; attachment

Context example:

the adhesion of Seville was decisive

Hypernyms ("adherence" is a kind of...):

support (aiding the cause or policy or interests of)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adherence"):

ecclesiasticism (excessive adherence to ecclesiastical forms and activities)

cabalism; kabbalism (adherence to some extreme traditional theological concept or interpretation)

royalism (adherence or attachment to a monarchy or to the principle of monarchal government)

traditionalism (adherence to tradition (especially in cultural or religious matters))

Sense 2

Meaning:

The property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

adherence; adhesion; adhesiveness; bond

Context example:

a heated hydraulic press was required for adhesion

Hypernyms ("adherence" is a kind of...):

stickiness (the property of sticking to a surface)

Derivation:

adherent (sticking fast)

 Context examples 

By increasing expression of vascular cell adhesion molecule 1, as well as adherence of melanoma cells to capillary endothelia, IL18 may promote development of hepatic metastases of melanoma.

(Interleukin-18, NCI Thesaurus)

Additionally Giemsa can be used as a differential stain to determine microbial cell adherence to human cells as well as in the diagnosis of malaria, spirochete, and protozoal infections.

(Giemsa Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition, fosfomycin tromethamine reduces the adherence of bacteria to uroepithelial cells.

(Fosfomycin Tromethamine, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition, this agent inhibits the binding of LFA-1 to intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), resulting in the inhibition of leukocyte adherence and the suppression of cell-mediated immunity.

(Efalizumab, NCI Thesaurus)

A morphologic variant of angioleiomyoma characterized by the adherence of neoplastic smooth muscle cells to the walls of vascular channels.

(Intravascular Angioleiomyoma, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes integrin alpha-M protein, plays a role in neutrophil and monocyte adherence to stimulated endothelium, and also in the phagocytosis of complement coated particles.

(ITGAM wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Abnormal adherence of part or all of the placenta to the uterine wall, with partial or complete absence of the decidua basalis, especially of the spongiosum layer.

(Placenta Accreta, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

NOTE: PROs are used to assess outcomes involving the patients'/subjects' perceptions, symptoms, satisfaction with treatment, adherence to prescribed regimens.

(Patient Self-Report, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Issue associated with lack or loss of adherence between materials intended to be joined together by an adhesive.

(Loss of or Failure to Bond Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

These interactions are involved in neutrophil chemotaxis, endothelial cell adherence and cytokine production.

(Leukotriene Receptor Binding, NCI Thesaurus)