intussusception
intussusception is a 15-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The reception of one part within another. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 25 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The reception of one part within another.
- noun. 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.
- noun. The interposition of new particles of formative material among those already existing, as in a cell wall, or in a starch grain.
- noun. 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.
- noun. (biology) growth in the surface area of a cell by the deposit of new particles between existing particles in the cell wall
- noun. the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface
"the invagination of the blastula"
Synonyms
infolding, introversion, invagination
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