(1) A putting in. (2) The usually more distal attachment of a muscle to the more movable part of the skeleton, as distinguished from origin. (3) In dentistry, the intraoral placing of a dental prosthesis. (4) Intrusion of fragments of any size from molecular to cytogenetic into the normal genome. [L. insertio, a planting in, fr. insero, -sertus, to plant in]
