intussusception
noun
- an intussuscepting or being intussuscepted
- the process of taking in food or other foreign matter and interposing the tiny particles among those already present in the cell walls
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(ĭnˌtə-sə-sĕpˈshən)
noun- Medicine Invagination, especially an infolding of one part of the intestine into another.
- Biology Assimilation of new substances into the existing components of living tissue.
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