adhese

English

Etymology

Apparently back-formation from adhesive or adhesion; compare Latin adhēsus.

Verb

adhese (third-person singular simple present adheses, present participle adhesing, simple past and past participle adhesed)

1. To attach adhesively or via adhesives.
   • 1949, G. F. Lothian, Absorption Spectrophotometry, page 171:

     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: […]

   • 1961, Aerospace Medicine:

     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 […]

   • 1964, Aerospace Medicine:

     Temperature sensors were adhesed to various parts of the body including the great toe and index finger.

   • 1965, Martin Marinus Meyer, The Influence of Nutrition and Root Temperature on the Dormant Season Nutrient Content and Spring Growth of Taxus Media and Forsythia Intermedia:

     Two inches of styrofoam was adhesed to this using a special epoxy resin from Hysol Corporation, Olean, New York.

   • 1975, Southern Reporter: Second series:

     […] was not damaged in any way and additionally that the rug was not supposed to be glued or adhesed to the floor .

   • 1996, Gennadiĭ Efremovich Zaikov, New Approaches to Polymer Materials, Nova Publishers, →ISBN, page 108:

     The above mentioned two layers of rubber are adhesed to each other not by the whole contact surface, and by separate parts only , possessing the form of longitudinal belts, which width is approximately 3 times lower, than that of […]

2. (medicine) To unite via adhesion (abnormal union of surface).
   • 1977, Boyd v. City of Wyandotte, 402 MICH 98 (1977): Plaintiff-Appellant's Appendix on Appeal, page 353:

     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?

   • 2012 February 14, Paul C. Brady, Patrick J. Denard, The Cowboy's Companion: A Trail Guide for the Arthroscopic Shoulder Surgeon, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 174:

     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 […]

   • 2020 October 1, Michael S. Baggish, Mickey M. Karram, Atlas of Pelvic Anatomy and Gynecologic Surgery E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 377:

     Not frequently, the large intestine is also tightly adhesed to the ovary. Dissection is performed by gaining retroperitoneal entry to (1) free the intestine from the ovarian tissue, (2) free the ovary from the sidewall structures […]

Latin

Participle

adhēse

1. vocative masculine singular of adhēsus