Associations to the word «Intussusception»
Noun
Wiktionary
INTUSSUSCEPTION, noun. (rare) Absorption.
INTUSSUSCEPTION, noun. (medicine) The invagination of one portion of a tubular anatomical structure (especially intestines or blood vessels) within the next.
Dictionary definition
INTUSSUSCEPTION, noun. The folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface; "the invagination of the blastula".
INTUSSUSCEPTION, noun. (biology) growth in the surface area of a cell by the deposit of new particles between existing particles in the cell wall.
Wise words
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more
value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an
idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words,
but a great deal in a few.