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detrusion

detrusion noun: a downward out outward thrust.

Noun

detrusion (countable and uncountable, plural detrusions)

  1. (archaic) A downward out outward thrust.
    • the detrusion of the Church from her legitimate influence, which sufficiently accounts for that absence of feeling for the beautiful and holy, which has so obscured and vulgarized the mind of modern age1842, Lichfield Society, The First Report of the Lichfield Society
    • detrusion of the anus1872, Transactions of the Zoological Society of London

Forms of detrusion

pluraldetrusions

Origin of detrusion

From Latin detrusio. See detrude.

Questions about detrusion

What does detrusion mean?
Detrusion means a downward out outward thrust.
What part of speech is detrusion?
Detrusion is a noun.
What is the plural of detrusion?
The plural of detrusion is detrusions.

Words near detrusion in the dictionary

  1. detruncations
  2. detrunk
  3. detrunked
  4. detrunking
  5. detrunks
  6. detrusion
  7. detrusions
  8. detrusive
  9. detrusor
  10. detrusorrhaphy
  11. detrusors

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