collapsion
English
Etymology
Latin collapsio.
Noun
collapsion (countable and uncountable, plural collapsions)
- (archaic) collapse
- 1734, Physical Essays on the Parts of the Human Body […] :
- the Collapsion which we find when an Animal dies in an Air Pump
References
- “collapsion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.