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adhese

verb

  1. stick (to)
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Wiktionary

verb

Etymology: Apparently back-formation from adhesive or adhesion (itself related to adhere); compare Latin adhēsus.

  1. To attach adhesively or via adhesives.

    The windows of some are cemented on but preferably adhesed without any cement (a process of adhesing without cement was developed in the Hilger laboratories:[…]

    After adhesing the rubber screen support to a shaved and cleaned area of the torso, the electrode and paste were covered with a piece of adhesive[…]

  2. To unite via adhesion (abnormal union of surface).

    Q. Freeing up the nerve relates to what? A. Freeing up the nerve would not mean that he would try to carefully dissect the nerve from anything that it may be attached to. Q. Adhesed to? A. Attached or adhesed to. Q. Okay. Why?

    This maneuver preserves whatever rotator cuff might have been encased within the scar tissue that had become adhesed to the acromion. The shaver blade then completes the dissection of the lateral edge of this soft tissue envelope from[…]