intussusceptionn.
/ˌɪntəssəˈsɛpʃən/ 1.
a. A taking within; absorption into itself.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > incorporation or inclusion > assimilation or absorption > [noun]
suppinga1400
accretion1633
absorption1659
absorbitiona1682
intussusception1707
assimilating1781
assimilation1790
swallowing1816
submergence1826
introsusceptiona1834
merging1836
mergence1865
osmosis1930
recuperation1967
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 29 Plants..receive their Nourishment by Intus-susception.
1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 317/2 Intus-susception of one germ within another.
1881 T. H. Huxley Sci. & Culture xi. 278 A particle of dry gelatine may be swelled up by the intussusception of water.
b. transferred and figurative. The taking in of things immaterial; e.g. of notions or ideas into the mind.
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society > education > learning > [noun] > assimilating ideas
imbibition1603
digestiona1610
intussusception1860
osmosis1930
1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table (1890) x. 224 This intussusception of the ideas of inanimate objects.
1861 F. M. Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. 325 I..take this view of the gradual formation of language by agglutination, as opposed to intussusception.
1888 E. Saltus Tristrem Varick (1889) 151 Resuscitations of hope, and intussusceptions of her presence.
1898 Month June 595 Like language, dogma is modified by desuetude, by intussusception, by neology.
2. Physiology and Biology. The taking in of foreign matter by a living organism and its conversion into organic tissue. In Plant Physiology (see quot. 1882), opposed to apposition, or the deposition of new particles in layers on the inner side of the cell-wall.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > absorption or assimilation (of a substance, etc.) > [noun]
attraction?a1425
likening?a1425
assimilation1626
insumption1676
absorption1737
intussusception1765
introsusception1816
inceptiona1849
uptake1931
1765 J. Platt in Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 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.
1772 Philos. Trans. 1771 (Royal Soc.) 61 239 Some will have them [shells] increase by intussusception, and others by juxtaposition.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 123/2 Increase in the unorganized world happens through juxta-position, in the organic through intus-susception.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. 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.
1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 167 The intimate way in which assimilation takes place, is named intussusception.
1882 Gilburt in Jrnl. Quekett Club 2nd Ser. 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. Pathology.
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.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of bowels or intestines > [noun] > intussusception
introsusception1786
intussusception1802
1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 7 36 Intestinal intus~susceptions vary much in their extent, situation, and other circumstances.
1811 R. Hooper Quincy's Lexicon-medicum (new ed.) 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.
1827 J. Abernethy Surg. Wks. II. 241 An irritable and striving action of the bowel, which produces a kind of intussusception.
1838 Guy's Hosp. Rep. 3 332 There were four intus-susceptions of the small intestines.
1879 T. Bryant Man. Pract. Surg. (ed. 3) I. xiv. 627 Intussusceptions..may occur at any period, though more common in infancy and child life.
1960 F. A. Jones & J. W. P. Gummer Clin. Gastroenterol. iii. 93 An intussusception when fully developed is made up of three layers of intestine. The innermost or entering portion of the gut is called the intussusceptum... The middle or returning layer..is referred to as the resceptum and the outermost or ensheathing layer is the intussuscipiens.
1970 H. M. Spiro Clin. Gastroenterol. xxii. 356/1 At laparotomy, the intussusception is easily recognized and reduced or..resected.
1970 H. M. Spiro Clin. Gastroenterol. xxii. 353/2 Intussusception is the telescoping of the wall of one segment of the bowel into the adjacent distal portion... In formal circles, the invaginated segment is known as the intussusceptum, the receiving segment is the intussuscipiens.
b. An insertion resembling an intestinal intussusception.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [noun] > that which is > an inserted piece or part > resembling an intussusception
intussusception1811
1811–31 J. Bentham Logic iv, in 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.
1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 877/1 Each segment of the insect forms a slight intussusception.
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