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Meaning of incarceration

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

incarceration

noun

Definitions

  1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.

  2. Strangulation, as in hernia.

  3. A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/incarceration

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