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intussusception
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Intussusception
(gcide) | Intussusception \In`tus*sus*cep"tion\, n. [L. intus within +
susception. Cf. Introsusception.]
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1. The reception of one part within another.
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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.
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3. (Bot.) The interposition of new particles of formative
material among those already existing, as in a cell wall,
or in a starch grain.
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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.
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Dead bodies increase by apposition; living bodies by
intussusception. --McKendrick.
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intussusception
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n 1: the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in
the surface; "the invagination of the blastula" [syn:
invagination, introversion, intussusception,
infolding]
2: (biology) growth in the surface area of a cell by the deposit
of new particles between existing particles in the cell wall |
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