Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of receiving within.
- noun In anatomy and botany, same as
intussusception .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of receiving within.
- noun (Med.) Same as
Intussusception .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act or process of receiving within.
- noun medicine
intussusception
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Examples
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It has been suggested, that it prevents or checks perspiration and introsusception, and it excludes the air which is essential to the vegetation of most plants.
Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French
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This introsusception of our souls and our sentiments created a mysterious struggle between Taillefer and myself.
The Red Inn Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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He would have seen that a person, 'quoad' person, can have nothing common or generic; and that where this finds place, the person is corrupted by introsusception of a nature, which becomes evil thereby, and on this relation only is an evil nature.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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Sometimes to an introsusception of one part of the intestine into another, and very frequently to a strangulated hernia or rupture.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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As this malady is occasioned sometimes by an introsusception of a part of the intestine into another part of it, especially in children, could holding them up by their heels for a second or two of time be of service after venesection?
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Where there exists an introsusception of the bowel in children, could the patient be held up for a time by the feet with his head downwards, or be laid with his body on an inclined plane with his head downwards, and crude mercury be injected as a clyster to the quantity of two or three pounds?
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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