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noun

Intussusception n.

The reception of one part within another.

(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.

(Bot.) The interposition of new particles of formative material among those already existing, as in a cell wall, or in a starch grain.

(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."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Intussusception" Quotes from Famous Books

... no such thing as generation, in the proper sense of the word, exists in Nature. The growth of an organic being is simply a process of enlargement as a particle of dry gelatine may be swelled up by the intussusception of water; its death is a shrinkage, such as the swelled jelly might undergo on desiccation. Nothing really new is produced in the living world, but the germs which develop have existed since the beginning of things; and nothing really dies, but, when what we call death takes ...

— Darwiniana • Thomas Henry Huxley

... caused by strangulation, telescope (intussusception) of the bowels, twists and knots, strictures and tumors, ...

— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

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