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n. - The building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning in the process of combining; A clumping of bacteria or red cells when held together by antibodies.

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  • It gives many openings for theories of agglutination and adulteration.
  • Another property which may be possessed by an anti-bacterial serum is that of agglutination.
  • The principal observation of leuco-agglutination and thrombo-agglutination was made in 1952.
  • But they all seem to be either an "agglutination of features" or a "crystallization of style."
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