Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun intussusception

2 senses of intussusception

Sense 1
invagination, introversion, intussusception, infolding -- (the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface; "the invagination of the blastula")
       => organic process, biological process -- (a process occurring in living organisms)

Sense 2
intussusception -- ((biology) growth in the surface area of a cell by the deposit of new particles between existing particles in the cell wall)
       => growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis -- ((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; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children")