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What does the word insertion mean?

• 1. A putting in. 2. The attachment of a muscle to the more movable part of the skeleton, as distinguished from origin.

• Introduction of a substance; connection or attachment.

• The attachment of one part to another. Insertions occur chiefly on bones, cartilages, and fibrous organs; thus, we speak of the insertion of muscular fibres into a tendon or aponeurosis; the insertion of a tendon, aponeurosis, or ligament, into a cartilage or bone. The word insertion has likewise been used by pathologists for the act of inoculating or introducing a virus into the body.

• [ Latin] The act of implanting or putting into; attachment or implantation; of a muscle, that one of its two points of attachment which changes place during the contraction of the muscle.

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