D defs.my
Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Incarceration

/ĭnˌ-kärˌ-sẽr-āsh'-ən/ · In·car·cer·a·tion · IPA /ɪŋˌkɑː(ɹ)səˈɹeɪʃən/
01 n. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
  1. 1.
    The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
  2. 2.
    Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.(Med.)