Definition of intussusception

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in·tus·sus·cep·tion    (nt-s-spshn) KEY 

NOUN:

1. Medicine Invagination, especially an infolding of one part of the intestine into another.
2. Biology Assimilation of new substances into the existing components of living tissue.

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ETYMOLOGY:
Medieval Latin intussuscepti, intussusceptin-, a taking in, admission, from intussusceptus, past participle of intussuscipere, to take in : Latin intus, within; see en in Indo-European roots + Latin suscipere, to take up ( sub-, sub- + capere, to take; see kap- in Indo-European roots)