INCARCERATION
\ɪnkˌɑːsəɹˈe͡ɪʃən], \ɪnkˌɑːsəɹˈeɪʃən], \ɪ_n_k_ˌɑː_s_ə_ɹ_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of INCARCERATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon"
By Princeton University
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the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
By Oddity Software
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A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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Hernia is said to be 'incarcerated,' when, owing to constriction about the neck of the hernial sac or elsewhere, it cannot be reduced with facility. Incarceration is sometimes used in the same sense as strangulation.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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