introsusception

English edit

Noun edit

introsusception (countable and uncountable, plural introsusceptions)

The act or process of receiving within.
- c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor
  The person is corrupted by the introsusception of a nature which becomes evil thereby.
(medicine) intussusception

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “introsusception”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)