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INTUSSUSCEPTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(biology) growth in the surface area of a cell by the deposit of new particles between existing particles in the cell wall
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("intussusception" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
Domain category:
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface
Example:
the invagination of the blastula
Synonyms:
infolding; introversion; intussusception; invagination
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("intussusception" is a kind of...):
biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)
Derivation:
intussuscept (introvert or invaginate)
