internection

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noun

intimate connection

OriginLatin internectere →
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Meanings

nouninternection (plural internections)

plural internections

  1. obsoleteintimate connection

    The faulty internections of the bladder, vagina, rectum, uterus, oviducts, and ovaries, indicate certain relations that are invariably attended with either dyspareunia, dysmenorrhæa, sterility, or dystocia

    1881, Montrose A. Pallen, “The Reparative Surgery of the Genital Tracts”, in Transactions of the 1st, 2nd, 4th-17th congress. International congress of medicine

Origin

  1. Latininternectere“to bind together”
  2. Englishinternection

From Latin internectere (“to bind together”), from inter (“between”) + nectere (“to fasten”).

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Chicago

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