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
The melancholy of the forest encompassed 271 them, infolding them like a mantle.
From Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls by Madison, Lucy Foster
And the light that went out from me was as a nimbus infolding every one in the speechlessness of my love.
From Paul Faber, Surgeon by MacDonald, George
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