Definition of Adherent

1. Noun. Someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another.


2. Adjective. Sticking fast.
Similar to: Adhesive
Derivative terms: Adhere, Adhere, Adherence

Definition of Adherent

1. a. Sticking; clinging; adhering.

2. n. One who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church.

Definition of Adherent

1. a supporter [n -S] - See also: supporter

Medical Definition of Adherent

1. 1. Sticking; clinging; adhering. 2. Attached as an attribute or circumstance. 3. Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals. Origin: L. Adhaerens, -entis, p. Pr., cf. F. Adherent. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Adherent

ADH
ADH
adharma
adharmas
ADHD
adherable
adhere
adhered
adherence
adherence
adherences
adherence syndrome
adherend
adherends
adherent (current term)
adherent (current term)
adherently
adherents
adherent pericardium
adherent placenta
adherer
adherers
adheres
adhering
adhering junction
adhesin
adhesion
adhesion
adhesion-related kinase
adhesional

Literary usage of Adherent

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1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"These cases are likely to be subacute or chronic; reference is again made to them under "adherent pericardium." The duration of the disease depends upon the ..."

2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1920)
"Indeed I have seen cases at operation in which it was most difficult to tell whether or not the lung and costal pleura were adherent. ..."

3. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1920)
"This fact must be borne in mind in considering of adherent plants. The classification the results obtained with the progeny of the plants of the progenies ..."

4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1906)
"In b and c the abscess is shrinking as it becomes emptied, and in this way the intestine reaches the bottom of the pelvis, where it may become adherent and ..."

5. Physical Diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1909)
"adherent Pericardium. In the majority of cases the diagnosis cannot be made during life, unless the pericardium is adherent, not only to the heart, ..."

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