incarcerated

incarcerated
Confined; imprisoned; trapped. [L. in, in, + carcero, pp. -atus, to imprison, fr. carcer, prison]

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in·car·cer·at·ed in-'kär-sə-.rāt-əd adj of a hernia constricted but not strangulated

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adj.
confined or constricted so as to be immovable: applied particularly to a type of hernia.

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in·car·cer·at·ed (in-kahrґsər-āt″əd) [L. incarceratus imprisoned] imprisoned; constricted; subjected to incarceration.

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