Invagination

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or process of invaginating or the condition of being invaginated.
  • n. An invaginated organ or part.
  • n. Embryology The infolding of a portion of the outer layer of a blastula in the formation of a gastrula.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The process where an anatomical part invaginates upon itself or into another structure.
  • n. One of the methods by which the various germinal layers of the ovum are differentiated.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The condition of an invaginated organ or part.
  • n. The inward movement of the wall of a tissue or cell, to form a cavity; also, the cavity thus formed.
  • n. The inward movement of one part of the wall of a blastula, to form a gastrula; the process of gastrulation, in which layers of the ovum are differentiated.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of introverting or sheathing, or the state of being sheathed; insertion or reception as into a sheath; intussusception.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface
  • n. the condition of being folded inward or sheathed
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    biological process    organic process    condition   
     
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