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detrusion en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin detrusio. See detrude.

Meanings

1. (archaic, countable, uncountable) 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 age 1842, Lichfield Society, The First Report of the Lichfield Society:
   • detrusion of the anus 1872, Transactions of the Zoological Society of London:
   • In Fig. 236 c d must be to c b in the ratio that the force to resist detrusion bears in the direct cohesion of the material 1907, C. W. D. Boxall, Henry Adams, F. W. Loasby, Cassells' Carpentry and Joinery, Joints:

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detrusive · detrude