Incarceration
Incarceration , noun
[Compare French incarcération.]
1.
The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. — Glanvill
2.
(a) (Medicine) Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.
(b)
(Medicine) A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.