Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of invaginating or the condition of being invaginated.
- noun An invaginated organ or part.
- noun Embryology The infolding of a portion of the outer layer of a blastula in the formation of a gastrula.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of introverting or sheathing, or the state of being sheathed; insertion or reception as into a sheath; intussusception.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) The condition of an invaginated organ or part.
- noun The inward movement of the wall of a tissue or cell, to form a cavity; also, the cavity thus formed.
- noun (Biol., Embryology) The inward movement of one part of the wall of a blastula, to form a gastrula; the process of gastrulation, in which layers of the ovum are differentiated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine The process where an anatomical part
invaginates upon itself or into another structure. - noun One of the methods by which the various germinal layers of the ovum are differentiated.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface
- noun the condition of being folded inward or sheathed
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Examples
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Upper blastopore lip still engaged in invagination was implanted in a different orientation in relation to the host embryo - crosswise and opposite to the orientation of the later primary primordia.
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A. de Boer 2007 The trans-envelope Tol-Pal complex is part of the cell division machinery and required for proper outer-membrane invagination during cell constriction in E. coli.
Flagellum evolution -- how's your German? - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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The result was a wave of invagination that went further, and actually pinched off a ‘neural tube’ screenshots a to h, overleaf.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Also in favour of the origami analogy, folding, invagination and turning inside out are some of the favourite tricks used by embryonic tissues when making a body.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Also in favour of the origami analogy, folding, invagination and turning inside out are some of the favourite tricks used by embryonic tissues when making a body.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Origami-like folding, Oster-style invagination and pinching off: these are just some of the simplest tricks for building embryos.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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The result was a wave of invagination that went further, and actually pinched off a ‘neural tube’ screenshots a to h, overleaf.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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You can easily see how this invagination could be a useful move in inflating origami, and it does indeed play a major role in both gastrulation and neurulation.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Origami-like folding, Oster-style invagination and pinching off: these are just some of the simplest tricks for building embryos.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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In neurulation, as in gastrulation, invagination is much in evidence.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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