incarceration
    n 1: the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity
         until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers";
         "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he
         practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle
         dungeon" [syn: captivity, imprisonment,
         incarceration, immurement]

Incarceration \In*car`cer*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. incarc['e]ration.]
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   1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined;
      imprisonment. --Glanvill.
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   2. (Med.)
      (a) Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.
      (b) A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it
          irreducible, but not great enough to cause
          strangulation.
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