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say it: ad-HEE-zhuhn
adhesion is a noun meaning "abnormal union of bodily tissues; most common in the abdomen". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a fibrous band of scar tissue that binds together normally separate anatomical structures
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”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for adhesion come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.