(Medicine)the inversion of one portion of the intestine within another (医)肠套叠
[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. 由于细胞壁生长,表面面积均匀增加。
语源
early 18th cent. (in the sense 'absorption'): from modern Latin intussusceptio(n-), from Latin intus 'within' + susceptio(n-) (from suscipere 'take up')