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aggregation

 [ag″rĕ-ga´shun]
1. massing or clumping of materials together.
2. a clumped mass of material.
familial aggregation the occurrence of more cases of a given disorder in close relatives of a person with the disorder than in control families.
platelet aggregation platelet agglutination.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

ag·gre·ga·tion

(ag-rĕ-gā'shŭn),
A crowded mass of independent but similar units; a cluster.
Synonym(s): agglomeration
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Aggregation

Epidemiology A term of art referring to a lopsided distribution of parasites among hosts, with some hosts suffering a greater infestation than would be expected by chance alone.
Vox populi A massing of material; clumping.
Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.

ag·gre·ga·tion

(ag'rĕ-gā'shŭn)
A crowded mass of independent but similar units; a cluster.
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

aggregation

a clumping or clustering of individuals of a population in a non-random distribution. Such clumping can occur
  1. as a response to local habitat differences, e.g. some organisms preferring, say, damp to dry areas;
  2. as a response to daily or seasonal weather changes;
  3. by reproductive processes, e.g. individuals hatching from the same egg batch in some animals, or poor seed dispersal in plants;
  4. as a result of social attraction, e.g. colonial nesting in birds.
Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005

Aggregation

The blood cell clumping process that is measured in the platelet aggregation test.
Mentioned in: Platelet Aggregation Test
Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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