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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 incarceration
 下獄,監禁,幽閉

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 in·car·cer·a·tion /ɪnˌkɑrsəˈreʃən/ 名詞
 箝閉

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 In·car·cer·a·tion n.
 1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
 2. Med. (a) Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia. (b) A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 incarceration
      n : the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity
          until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers";
          "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he
          practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle
          dungeon" [syn: captivity, imprisonment, immurement]