invagination
English
Etymology
From invaginate + -ion.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
invagination (countable and uncountable, plural invaginations)
- (medicine) The process where an anatomical part invaginates upon itself or into another structure.
- One of the methods by which the various germinal layers of the ovum are differentiated.
Translations
the process where an anatomical part invaginates upon itself or into another structure
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French
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Further reading
- “invagination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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