Something that adheres to an object or surface; (Medicine) = adhesion, n. 6. Now rare.

Medicine. An abnormal formation or structure joining two parts of the body; spec. a fibrinous or fibrous band connecting two serosal surfaces…

A connective structure in the human body. Medicine and Surgery. A band of fibrous tissue formed as a result of a pathological process or during…

Medicine. (More fully false membrane) a thick layer of exudate found on a mucosal surface in certain diseases; a pseudomembrane. Also: a cast of a…

A layer resembling a membrane, a false membrane; esp. a sheet of exudate covering a mucosal surface. Cf. membrane, n. 1d.

The condition of being heterologous: opposed to homology, n.

A new and abnormal growth of tissue in the body, spec. one resulting from uncontrolled proliferation of cells; a benign or malignant tumour.

An adhesion formed elsewhere in the body, esp. within the aural or nasal cavities.

A tissue formed in a part where it does not normally occur.

Medicine. Abnormal tissue, esp. a neoplasm or malformation. Obsolete. rare.

Abnormal tissue; esp. a neoplasm or malformation. rare.

Abnormal tissue, or tissue formed at the wrong place; heteroplasia.