Usually means: Consistent alignment with guidelines, rules.
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  1. adherence: Merriam-Webster
  2. adherence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adherence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adherence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adherence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Adherence, adherence: Wordnik
  7. adherence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. adherence: Wiktionary
  9. adherence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. adherence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. adherence: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Adherence, adherence: Dictionary.com
  13. adherence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Adherence (medicine), Adherence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Adherence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. adherence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. adherence: Rhymezone
  18. Adherence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. adherence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. adherence: FreeDictionary.org
  21. adherence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. adherence: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. adherence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. adherence: Merriam-Webster

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  2. adherence: Legal dictionary

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  1. adherence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. adherence: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
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  7. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  8. adherence: Medical dictionary
  9. Inflammatory Bowel Disease Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (adherence)

▸ noun:  A close physical union of two objects.
▸ noun:  Faithful support for some cause.
▸ noun:  (medicine) An extent to which a patient continues an agreed treatment plan.
▸ noun:  (Scots law) The fulfilment of the legal obligation of residing with wife or husband.

Similar:
adhesiveness, adhesion, attachment, bond, coadherence, consistence, affiliation, cohesion, affinity, counion, more...

Opposite:
disobedience, noncompliance, defiance, rebellion, disregard

Types:
concordant, partial, non-adherent, more...

Phrases:
immune adherence, guideline adherence, immune adherence reaction, morbid adherence of the placenta, placenta adherence, more...

Adjectives:
strict, rigid, close, firm, faithful, bacterial, blind, slavish, continued, religious, steady

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Similar:
adhesiveness, adhesion, attachment, bond, coadherence, consistence, affiliation, cohesion, affinity, counion, more...

Opposite:
disobedience, noncompliance, defiance, rebellion, disregard

Types:
concordant, partial, non-adherent, more...

Phrases:
immune adherence, guideline adherence, immune adherence reaction, morbid adherence of the placenta, placenta adherence, adherence behavior healthy diet, adherence to moral principles, opposite of adherence, more...

Adjectives:
strict, rigid, close, firm, faithful, bacterial, blind, slavish, continued, religious, steady

Colors:
    gray,     white,     black,     beige,     olive, more...



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