ENTRAPMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does entrapment mean? 

• ENTRAPMENT (noun)
  The noun ENTRAPMENT has 1 sense:

1. a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials

  Familiarity information: ENTRAPMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTRAPMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("entrapment" is a kind of...):

defence; defense; demurrer; denial (a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

entrap (take or catch as if in a snare or trap)

 Context examples 

Ricin toxin A-chain, a potent protein synthesis inhibitor, was deglycosylated and was used in this immunoconjugate to avoid hepatic entrapment.

(Di-dgA-RFB4 Immunotoxin, NCI Thesaurus)

Entrapment of the median nerve in the wrist that is characterized by numbness, tingling and painful movement.

(Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

An aggregation of blood factors, primarily platelets and fibrin with entrapment of cellular elements, frequently causing vascular obstruction at the point of its formation.

(Blood clot, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare congenital disorder which is caused by entrapment of anatomic parts of the fetus in fibrous amniotic bands during pregnancy.

(Amniotic Band Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Entrapment of the MEDIAN NERVE in the carpal tunnel, which is formed by the flexor retinaculum and the CARPAL BONES.

(Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Electron microscopy showed that the microbes were entangled in beta-amyloid fibers extending from the surfaces of the fungal cells, suggesting an entrapment role for beta-amyloid.

(Alzheimer’s protein may have natural antibiotic role, NIH)