in·tus·sus·cep·tion
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KEY
NOUN:
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Medicine
Invagination, especially an infolding of one part of the intestine into another.
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Biology
Assimilation of new substances into the existing components of living tissue.
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)
