Associations to the word «Intussusception»

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

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Aeschylus