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1. <anatomy> The place of attachment, as of a muscle to the bone which it moves.
2. <genetics> A rare nonreciprocal translocation involving three breaks in which a segment is removed from one chromosome and then inserted into a broken region of a nonhomologous chromosome.
Origin: L. Inserere = to join to
(11 Mar 2008)
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