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Introsusception Introsusception In`tro*sus*cep"tion, n.
1. The act or process of receiving within.
The person is corrupted by the introsusception of a
nature which becomes evil thereby. --Coleridge.
2. (Med.) Same as Intussusception.
Intussusception Intussusception In`tus*sus*cep"tion, n. [L. intus within +
susception. Cf. Introsusception.]
1. The reception of one part within another.
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.
3. (Bot.) The interposition of new particles of formative
material among those already existing, as in a cell wall,
or in a starch grain.
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.
Dead bodies increase by apposition; living bodies by
intrussusception. --McKendrick.
Susception Susception Sus*cep"tion, n. [L. susceptio: cf. F. susception.
See Susceptible.]
The act of taking; reception.
- adjacent portion". It is derived from the Latinintus - "within" and susceptio - "action of undertaking", from suscipere - "to take up". "Intussusception"... - brought to Besançon by Otto de la Roche, and the feast of its arrival (Susceptio) was ordered to be kept on 11 July. It became a double of the first class...
