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HAEMAGGLUTINATE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they haemagglutinate ... he / she / it haemagglutinates
Past simple: haemagglutinated
Past participle: haemagglutinated
-ing form: haemagglutinating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause the clumping together (of red blood cells)
Synonyms:
haemagglutinate; hemagglutinate
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "haemagglutinate" is one way to...):
agglutinate (clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc.)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Derivation:
haemagglutination (agglutination of red blood cells)