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What does insertion mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of inserting, or something inserted.
  2. (anatomy) The distal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will be moved by the muscle.
  3. (genetics) The addition of a nucleotide to a chromosome by mutation.
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Getting insertion and removal right can be a bit tricky until you learn the knack.
The micropipette was pulled manually to a gradual taper to ease insertion into the tissue.
It is possible that avulsion fractures in which the ACL is avulsed from its femoral insertion occur mainly before skeletal maturity.
The insertion of the fusion peptide in the host membrane provides the necessary link between the viral envelope and the cell membrane.
The insertion of the hydrophobic acyl chains into the lipid bilayer forms a putative fourth cytoplasmic loop.
Cases of deafness were reported in medical journals, as well as aural cavity damage from the insertion of mini headphones.

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