internection

English

Etymology

From Latin internectere (“to bind together”), from inter (“between”) + nectere (“to fasten”).

Noun

internection (plural internections)

1. (obsolete) intimate connection
   • 1881, Montrose A. Pallen, “The Reparative Surgery of the Genital Tracts”, in Transactions of the 1st, 2nd, 4th-17th congress. International congress of medicine:

     The faulty internections of the bladder, vagina, rectum, uterus, oviducts, and ovaries, indicate certain relations that are invariably attended with either dyspareunia, dysmenorrhæa, sterility, or dystocia

References

• “internection”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.