cytoadhesion

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English

Etymology

From cyto- +‎ adhesion.

Noun

cytoadhesion (uncountable)

  1. (cytology) Adhesion of cells.
    • 2016 January 28, “Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulations of Maternal Circulation: Wall Shear Stress in the Human Placenta and Its Biological Implications”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
      To investigate if the in silico results are consistent with physiological observations, we studied the cytoadhesion of human parasitized (Plasmodium falciparum) erythrocytes to primary human STB cultures, in flow conditions with different WSS values.