incarceration
- 1The act of putting someone in prison, or the state of being kept there.
Like being locked in a room you are not allowed to leave.
His incarceration lasted three years before he was released early.
Years of incarceration changed the way she saw the world.
Similarimprisonment, confinement, detention
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- 2The trapping of a hernia so it cannot be pushed back into place, while its blood flow stays normal.
Like a drawer that gets stuck and will not slide back in, though nothing is crushed.
The doctor said the incarceration could be fixed with a small operation.
Incarceration of the hernia caused pain but no serious damage.
- 3The cutting off of blood flow to a hernia that has become trapped.
Like a hose pinched so hard that nothing can flow through it.
The old surgeon warned that incarceration of the gut could kill within a day.
Incarceration had set in, and the trapped tissue was already dying.
Similarstrangulation
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Origin
It comes from the Medieval Latin word incarcerātiō.