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intussusception|ˌɪntəssəˈsɛpʃən| [f. L. intus within + susceptiōn-em a taking up, f. suscipĕre to take up: cf. F. intussusception (1705 in Hatz.-Darm.) and introsusception.] 1. a. A taking within; absorption into itself.
1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 29 Plants..receive their Nourishment by Intus-susception. 1836–9Todd Cycl. Anat. II. 317/2 Intus-susception of one germ within another. 1881Huxley Sc. & Cult. xi. 278 A particle of dry gelatine may be swelled up by the intussusception of water. b. transf. and fig. The taking in of things immaterial; e.g. of notions or ideas into the mind.
1860O. W. Holmes Prof. Breakf.-t. x. (Paterson) 224 This intussusception of the ideas of inanimate objects. 1861Max Müller Sc. Lang. I. 325, I..take this view of the gradual formation of language by agglutination, as opposed to intussusception. 1888E. Saltus Tristrem Varick (1889) 151 Resuscitations of hope, and intussusceptions of her presence. 1898Month June 595 Like language, dogma is modified by desuetude, by intussusception, by neology. 2. Phys. and Biol. The taking in of foreign matter by a living organism and its conversion into organic tissue. In Veg. Phys. (see quot. 1882), opposed to apposition, or the deposition of new particles in layers on the inner side of the cell-wall.
1764Platt in Phil. Trans. LIV. 40 The Belemnite seems to be formed by apposition, and the Aculeus or Spine by protrusion, or, as Mr. Reaumur calls it, by intus-susception. 1771Phil. Trans. LXI. 239 Some will have them [shells] increase by intussusception, and others by juxtaposition. 1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 123/2 Increase in the unorganized world happens through juxta-position, in the organic through intus-susception. 1875Bennett & Dyer Sachs' Bot. 31 The growth also of such thicknesses as project outwardly, like the combs and spines of pollen-grains, &c., can only be explained by intussusception, not by apposition. 1881Mivart Cat 167 The intimate way in which assimilation takes place, is named intussusception. 1882Gilburt in Jrnl. Quekett Club Ser. ii. No. 1. 23 Growth of the cell-wall takes place by intussusception, i.e. the intercalation or insertion of new molecules between those already existing. 3. Path. a. The inversion of one portion of intestine and its reception within an adjacent portion; invagination; introversion; an instance of this. Also, the mass of intestine involved in this.
1802Med. & Physical Jrnl. VII. 36 Intestinal intus⁓susceptions vary much in their extent, situation, and other circumstances. 1811Hooper Med. Dict., Intus-susception, a disease of the intestinal tube, and most frequently of the small intestines; it consists in a portion of gut passing for some length within another portion. 1827Abernethy Surg. Wks. II. 241 An irritable and striving action of the bowel, which produces a kind of intussusception. 1838Guy's Hosp. Rep. III. 332 There were four intus-susceptions of the small intestines. 1878T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. 627 Intussusceptions may occur at any period, though more common in infancy and child-life. 1960,1970[see intussusceptum]. 1970H. M. Spiro Clin. Gastroenterol. xxii. 356/1 At laparotomy, the intussusception is easily recognized and reduced or..resected. b. An insertion resembling an intestinal intussusception.
1811–31Bentham Logic iv. Wks. 1843 VIII. 257 There has been framed a whole nest of physical aggregates, one within another, in a long chain or series of intus-susceptions or enclosures. 1836–9Todd Cycl. Anat. II. 877/1 Each segment of the insect forms a slight intussusception. |