invagination

English

Etymology

From invaginate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

invagination (countable and uncountable, plural invaginations)

1. (medicine) The process where an anatomical part invaginates upon itself or into another structure.
2. One of the methods by which the various germinal layers of the ovum are differentiated.

Derived terms

• disinvagination

Translations

the process where an anatomical part invaginates upon itself or into another structure

Hungarian: invagináció, betüremkedés, betüremlés (hu) Swedish: invagination (sv) c

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

invagination f (plural invaginations)

1. invagination

Further reading

• “invagination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.