pli·ca·tion
n 1 : the tightening of stretched or weakened bodily tissues or channels by folding the excess in tucks and suturing < of the neck of the bladder> 2 : the folding of one part on and the fastening of it to another (as areas of the bowel freed from adhesions and left without normal serosal covering) .
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