detrusion

From Latin detrusio. See detrude.

detrusion (countable and uncountable, plural detrusions)

1. (archaic) A downward out outward thrust.
   • 1842, Lichfield Society, The First Report of the Lichfield Society:

     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

   • 1872, Transactions of the Zoological Society of London:

     detrusion of the anus

   • 1907, C. W. D. Boxall, Henry Adams, F. W. Loasby, Cassells' Carpentry and Joinery, Joints:

     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

• detrude
• detrusive

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

• unstoried