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intromission
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intromission \In`tro*mis"sion\, n. [Cf. F. intromission. See Intromit.]
The act of sending in or of putting in; insertion.
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Specifically; (Zo["o]l.) The insertion of the male copulatory organ into the female in the process of coitus.
--South.Four populations [of the vlei rat] varied in a number of parameters of copulatory behavior, such as latency to first mount, number of intromissions per series, and latency to intromission after first ejaculation.
--Edith Dempster (African Small Mammals Newsletter, Issue No. 16, May 1996, Laboratoir Mammif[`e]res & Oiseaux, Paris) The act of letting go in; admission.
(Scots Law) An intermeddling with the affairs of another, either on legal grounds or without authority.
Wiktionary
n. 1 the state of being allowed to enter; admittance 2 the act of allowing to enter; admission 3 putting one thing into another; insertion 4 copulation: normally refers to the first moment of initial entry of a penis into a vagina, mouth or anus. 5 (context legal Scotland English) An intermeddle with the affairs of another, either on legal grounds or without authority.
WordNet
n. the act of putting one thing into another [syn: insertion, introduction]
Wikipedia
Intromission may refer to:
- Sexual intercourse (colloquial)
- Intromission theory, a theory of visual perception
- Vicious intromission, a concept in Scottish law
Usage examples of "intromission".
For nature (as the physicians allege) having intended the superior anterior orifice only for the intromission of solids and liquids, and the inferior posterior for ejection, these artists ingeniously considering that in all diseases Nature is forced out of her seat, therefore to replace her in it, the body must be treated in a manner directly contrary, by interchanging the use of each orifice, forcing solids and liquids in at the anus, and making evacuations at the mouth.