incarceration

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
A strangulation, as in a hernia.
A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

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incarceration incarcerations

From Medieval Latin incarcerātiō.

incarcerate

decarceration disincarceration e-carceration incarcerative overincarceration reincarceration

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