• Imbrication

    Origin

    From French imbrication

    Full definition of imbrication

    Noun

    imbrication

    (plural imbrications)
    1. a set of tiles or shingles that overlap like the scales of a fish
    2. (medicine) overlapping of layers of tissue in wound closure or correctional surgery
    3. (geology) a sedimentary deposition in which small, flat stones are tiled in the same direction so that they overlap.
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