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Intussusception

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Intussusception has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

Intussusceptionn. [L. intus within + susception. Cf. Introsusception.].
  •  The reception of one part within another.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The abnormal reception or slipping of a part of a tube, by inversion and descent, within a contiguous part of it; specifically, the reception or slipping of the upper part of the small intestine into the lower; introsusception; invagination.  Dunglison.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The interposition of new particles of formative material among those already existing, as in a cell wall, or in a starch grain.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The act of taking foreign matter, as food, into a living body; the process of nutrition, by which dead matter is absorbed by the living organism, and ultimately converted into the organized substance of its various tissues and organs.  [1913 Webster]
    "Dead bodies increase by apposition; living bodies by intussusception."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Intussusception, n.
1 Med. the inversion of one portion of the intestine within another.
2 Bot. the deposition of new cellulose particles in a cell wall, to increase the surface area of the cell.

Etymology
F intussusception or mod.L intussusceptio f. L intus within + susceptio f. suscipere take up
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