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
He, too, looked across toward the Northern lines, and, civilian though he was, he knew that their tremendous infolding curve was more than twice as great as that forming the lines of the South.
From Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
The four cryptic creatures of Ezekiel's vision came out of the north, a great cloud of "infolding fire" and the colour was amber.
From Visionaries by James Huneker
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