bell notificationshomepageloginedit profileclubsdmBox

Search word meanings:

Word Meanings - INTUSSUSCEPTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Additional info about word: INTUSSUSCEPTION

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. Dunglison. (more info) 1. The reception of one part within another.

Related words: (words related to INTUSSUSCEPTION)

  • SLIPPY
    Slippery.
  • UPPERMOST
    Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
  • SPECIFICALLY
    In a specific manner.
  • LOWERMOST
    Lowest.
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • SLIPPERILY
    In a slippery manner.
  • LOWERY
    Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
  • UPPERTENDOM
    The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
  • CONTIGUOUS
    In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining. The two halves of the paper did not appear fully divided . . . but seemed contiguous at one of their angles. Sir I. Newton. Sees no contiguous palace rear its head.
  • ABNORMAL
    Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. "That deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. " Froude.
  • SLIPPER
    A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and afford a means of adjustment; -- also called shoe, and gib. Slipper animalcule , a ciliated infusorian of the genus Paramecium. -- Slipper flower. Slipperwort. -- Slipper
  • SMALLCLOTHES
    A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
  • SMALLPOX
    A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
  • LOWER
    Compar. of Low, a.
  • INTROSUSCEPTION
    See INTUSSUSCEPTION (more info) 1. The act or process of receiving within. The person is corrupted by the introsusception of a nature which becomes evil thereby. Coleridge.
  • WITHIN
    with, against, toward + innan in, inwardly, within, from in in. See 1. In the inner or interior part of; inside of; not without; as, within doors. O, unhappy youth! Come not within these doors; within this roof The enemy of all your graces lives.
  • SMALL
    sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
  • SLIPPINESS
    Slipperiness. "The slippiness of the way." Sir W. Scott.
  • WITHINSIDE
    In the inner parts; inside. Graves.
  • DESCENT
    Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity. Abbott. 6. Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope;
  • WILLOWER
    A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
  • WINDFLOWER
    The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
  • FLOWERY-KIRTLED
    Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
  • CAULIFLOWER
    An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
  • FLOWER-DE-LUCE
    A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
  • LAPIDESCENT
    Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.
  • WALLOWER
    A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
  • FLOWERY
    1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • FLOWERLESSNESS
    State of being without flowers.
  • MAYFLOWER
    In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
  • UNFLOWER
    To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.
  • FLOWERLESS
    Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
  • ALLOWER
    1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.

 

Back to top