incarceration

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Noun

incarceration

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

Related terms

• incarcerate

Translations

• French: incarcération
• German: Einkerkerung
• Italian: incarcerazione
• Portuguese: encarceramento
• Russian: лише́ние свобо́ды
• Spanish: encarcelación, encarcelamiento

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