intussusception - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'intussusception' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Intussusception

[ n.]

- The reception of one part within another.
- 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.
- The interposition of new particles of formative material among those already existing, as in a cell wall, or in a starch grain.
- 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.

Meaning of 'intussusception' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . intussusception

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface

Example in sentence:

the invagination of the blastula

Nearby Words:

intact intactable intactible intagli intagliated intaglio intaglius intail intake intaminated

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Intussusception
Intussusception is the telescoping of a proximal segment of the bowel into the lumen of an adjoining distal segment.

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