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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of incarcerating or imprisoning; imprisonment.
  • noun In surgery, obstinate constriction, as of a hernia, or retention, as of the placenta in childbirth; strangulation, as in hernia.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
  • noun Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.
  • noun A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
  • noun Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.
  • noun A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the state of being imprisoned

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