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Invaginate   Listen
verb
Invaginate  v. t.  To insert as in a sheath; to produce intussusception in.


adjective
Invaginated, Invaginate  adj.  (Biol.)
(a)
Sheathed.
(b)
Having one portion of a hollow organ drawn back within another portion.





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"Invaginate" Quotes from Famous Books



... ar. is the cavity of the gastrula, the archenteron; b.p. is its opening or blastopore. Such a gastrula, formed mainly by overgrowth of the epiblast, is called an epibolic gastrula, as distinguished from the invaginate gastrula of amphioxus. The difference is evidently entirely due to the presence of yolk, and the consequent modification of ...
— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata • H. G. Wells


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