infolding
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of infolding
Example Sentences
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Twitching and infolding to the squealing feedback, his arms drawing invisible trails on the air, Nodine searches time and space for the echoes of his lost youth.
From The Guardian • Apr. 27, 2013
A rotavirus vaccine was suspended in the United States in 1999 after public-health officials received 15 reports of intussusception, an infolding of the bowel, in vaccinated infants.
From Nature • May 25, 2011
The mechanism is uncertain, but the live-virus vaccine might cause swelling of bowel lymph nodes and increase contraction, leading to infolding.
From Nature • May 25, 2011
Until that moment I had dreamed of my father's seeing me whilst I was yet a great way off, of resting my weary head upon his warm, infolding heart.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 by Various
In Dacetum, one of the Scolopendridae, there is no pocket-like infolding, the small tracheal tubes opening direct to the exterior on a large subcircular plate where their apertures fuse to form a complicated network.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
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