INTROMISSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intromission mean? 

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

1. the act of putting one thing into another

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTROMISSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of putting one thing into another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

insertion; introduction; intromission

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

movement (the act of changing the location of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intromission"):

cannulation; cannulisation; cannulization; canulation; canulisation; canulization; intubation (the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ)

instillation; instillment; instilment (the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop)

enclosing; enclosure; envelopment; inclosure (the act of enclosing something inside something else)

injection (the forceful insertion of a substance under pressure)

blood transfusion; transfusion (the introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery)

perfusion (pumping a liquid into an organ or tissue (especially by way of blood vessels))

Derivation:

intromit (allow to enter; grant entry to)

 Context examples 

For nature (as the physicians allege) having intended the superior anterior orifice only for the intromission of solids and liquids, and the inferior posterior for ejection, these artists ingeniously considering that in all diseases nature is forced out of her seat, therefore, to replace her in it, the body must be treated in a manner directly contrary, by interchanging the use of each orifice; forcing solids and liquids in at the anus, and making evacuations at the mouth.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)