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Medical Definition of Cell adhesion
1. See: adhesins, cadherins, cell adhesion molecules (CAMs), contact sites A, DLVO theory, integrins, sorting out, uvomorulin and various specialised junctions (adherens junctions, desmosomes, focal adhesions, gap junction and zonula occludens). This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)