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intussusception

Intussusception is a 15 letter word which starts with the letter I and ends with the letter N for which we found 4 definitions.

Definition
(n.) The reception of one part within another.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The interposition of new particles of formative material among those already existing as in a cell wall or in a starch grain.
(n.) 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.
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