Intussusception

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Medicine Invagination, especially an infolding of one part of the intestine into another.
  • n. Biology Assimilation of new substances into the existing components of living tissue.
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  • n. Absorption.
  • n. The invagination of one portion of a tubular anatomical structure (especially intestines or blood vessels) within the next.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The reception of one part within another.
  • n. 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.
  • n. The interposition of new particles of formative material among those already existing, as in a cell wall, or in a starch grain.
  • n. 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A receiving within; reception of one part within another part of the same organ, or of one organ within another of the same kind; invagination; introversion; introsusception.
  • n. In physiology, reception of foreign matter by a living organism, and its conversion into living tissue; ingestion, digestion, and assimilation of food, including the whole process of nutrition and growth. It is the mode of interstitial growth characteristic of organic life, as distinguished from any process of accretion by which a mineral may increase in size.
  • n. In botany, according to the theory proposed by Nägeli, the growth of cell-walls by the intercalation of new solid particles between those already in existence. The intussusception theory is opposed to the theory of growth by apposition, which supposes that the new particles are deposited in layers on the inner side of the cell-wall.
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  • n. the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface
  • n. (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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    biological process    organic process    ontogeny    development    ontogenesis   
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    Words with the same meaning
    introsusception    invagination   
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