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Definition of Adherent
1. Noun. Someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another.
Specialized synonyms: Zen Buddhist, Mahayanist, Hinayanist, Lamaist, Tantrist, Jainist, Shintoist, Rasta, Rastafarian, Mithraist, Zoroastrian, Absolutist, Amoralist, Animist, Antinomian, Apostle, Aristotelean, Aristotelian, Peripatetic, Bahai, Tao, Taoist, Clericalist, Donatist, Druse, Druze, Dualist, Hussite, Ismaili, Ismailian, Lutheran, Mahdist, Manichaean, Manichean, Manichee, Monophysite, Neoplatonist, Diabolist, Satanist, Sikh, Socinian, Totalitarian, Unitarian, Trinitarian, Arminian, Votary
Generic synonyms: Follower
Specialized synonyms: Baruch
Derivative terms: Adhere, Discipleship
2. Adjective. Sticking fast.
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. Adjective. Adhesive, sticking to something. ¹
2. Adjective. Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something. ¹
3. Adjective. (botany) Attaching or pressing against a different organ. ¹
4. Noun. A person who has membership in some group, association or religion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Adherent
Literary usage of Adherent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
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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