intussusception
/ˌɪntəsəˈsepʃən/noun
1
- Medicine the inversion of one portion of the intestine within another【医】肠套叠。
2
- mass noun Botany the growth of a cell wall by the deposition of cellulose【植】(纤维素沉淀而产生的细胞壁)内填(生长):
the area of the surface increases uniformly by intussusception.
由于内填作用, 表面面积均匀增加。
词源
early 18th cent. (in the sense 'absorption'): from modern Latin intussusceptio(n-), from Latin intus 'within' + susceptio(n-) (from suscipere 'take up').