Intussusception Definition

ĭntə-sə-sĕpshən
noun
An intussuscepting or being intussuscepted.
Webster's New World
Invagination, especially an infolding of one part of the intestine into another.
American Heritage Medicine
Assimilation of new substances into the existing components of living tissue.
American Heritage Medicine
The process of taking in food or other foreign matter and interposing the tiny particles among those already present in the cell walls.
Webster's New World
Absorption.
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Noun

Singular:
intussusception
Plural:
intussusceptions

Origin of Intussusception

  • Medieval Latin intussusceptiō intussusceptiōn- a taking in, admission from intussusceptus past participle of intussuscipere to take in Latin intus within en in Indo-European roots Latin suscipere to take up (sub- sub-) (capere to take kap- in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French intussusception, or directly from Latin intussusceptio, from intus ‘within’ + susceptio ‘susception’.

    From Wiktionary

Intussusception Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • These layers arc secreted by the protoplasm by the direct apposition of substances on those already in existence; and they may go on increasing in thickness, both by apposition and by the intussusception of particles probably carried in through the protoplasmic fibres, which penetrate the cell-wall as long as the cell lives.

  • But the increase of size which constitutes growth is the result of a process of molecular intussusception, and therefore differs altogether from the process of growth by accretion, which may be observed in crystals and is effected purely by the external addition of new matter - so that, in the well-known aphorism of Linnaeus, the word "grow" as applied to stones signifies a totally different process from what is called "growth" in plants and animals.

  • These include intussusception, when the adenoma may act as a lead point and cause the duodenum to telescope on itself.

  • This case illustrates the laparoscopic management of benign small bowel intussusception due to lipoma.

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