evaginate
verb (used with object)
to turn inside out, or cause to protrude by eversion, as a tubular organ.
evagination
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a word derived from
evaginate.
Example Sentences
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The evagination to form the hypophysis, p, is seen against the floor of the forebrain, fb.
From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by C. M. Reese
Rapid growth concentrated at one point brings about an evagination; in this manner are formed the sense-organs from the nerve-tube, the liver and lungs from the alimentary tube.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
They distinguished in the middle layer two quite distinct elements, the mesoblast proper, formed by the evagination of the walls of the archenteron, and the mesenchyme, formed by free cells budded off from the germ-layers.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
