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Webster 1913 Edition
Intussusception
1.
The reception of one part within another.
2.
(Med.)
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.
3.
(Bot.)
The interposition of new particles of formative material among those already existing, as in a cell wall, or in a starch grain.
4.
(Physiol.)
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.
Dead bodies increase by apposition; living bodies by
intussusception
. McKendrick.
Webster 1828 Edition
Intussusception
INTUSSUSCEPTION
,Noun.
Definition 2024
intussusception
intussusception
English
Schematic presentation of intestinal intussusception.
Noun
intussusception (countable and uncountable, plural intussusceptions)
- (rare) Absorption.
- (medicine) The invagination of one portion of a tubular anatomical structure (especially intestines or blood vessels) within the next.