intussusception
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1. (biology) growth in the surface area of a cell by the deposit of new particles between existing particles in the cell wall (noun.process)
| hypernym | : | development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny, |
| definition | : | (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 (noun.process) |
2. the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface (noun.process)
| derivation | : | intussuscept, |
| definition | : | introvert or invaginate (verb.contact) |
| derivation | : | intussuscept, |
| definition | : | introvert or invaginate (verb.contact) |
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