INCARCERATION

incarceration

Noun

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


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