1. (Medicine) obsolete to cause (the edges of a wound or fracture) to join during the process of healing or (of the edges of a wound or fracture) to join during this process
2. to stick or become stuck together
[C16: from Latin conglūtināre to glue together, from glūtināre to glue, from glūten glue]
fill up, close - fill or stop up; "Can you close the cracks with caulking?"
2.
conglutinate - stick together; "the edges of the wound conglutinated"
cling, cohere, adhere, cleave, stick - come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere"
Female mantle tissue and conglutinates can mimic insect larvae and pupae, leeches, flatworms, and even other fish, all of which seem to attract host fish closer for possible infestation by glochidia (Parmalee & Bogan 1998).
Both of these species are long-term brooders that use darters (Percidae) as hosts and release benthic conglutinates in the early spring (Barnhart et al., 2008).
Gravid animals were identified as those that had gills swollen with eggs, glochidia or conglutinates or held conglutinates beneath a swollen posterior mantle.
In 1989, we were not able to quantify the percentage of gravid females because they aborted conglutinates (i.e., packets of glochidia) during transfer from river to laboratory.
Lampsilines have evolved morphological adaptations to more efficiently contact their hosts, including mantle displays and conglutinates (packages of glochidia bound within a mucous matrix).