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incarceration (iou)



incarceration noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French from medieval Latin incarceratio(n-) imprisonment, formed as INCARCERATE verb: see -ATION.]
Medicine.
a. Retention of pus in a wound. Only in LME.
b. Obstruction or strangulation of a hernia. E19.
gen. The action of incarcerating; the fact of being incarcerated. M16.