'Intussusception' definitions:
Definition of 'intussusception'
(from WordNet)
noun
The folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface; "the invagination of the blastula" [syn: invagination, introversion, intussusception, infolding]
noun
(biology) growth in the surface area of a cell by the deposit of new particles between existing particles in the cell wall
Definition of 'Intussusception'
From: GCIDE
- Intussusception \In`tus*sus*cep"tion\, n. [L. intus within + susception. Cf. Introsusception.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The reception of one part within another. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (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. --Dunglison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Bot.) The interposition of new particles of formative material among those already existing, as in a cell wall, or in a starch grain. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (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. [1913 Webster]
- Dead bodies increase by apposition; living bodies by intussusception. --McKendrick. [1913 Webster]