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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: intussusception (0.01840 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to intussusception.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: intussusception intussusception n 1: the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface; “the invagination of the blastula” [syn: invagination, introversion, infolding] 2: (biology) growth in the surface area of a cell by the deposit of new particles between existing particles in the cell wall
English → English (gcide) Definition: Intussusception 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]

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