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Ingrowth

noun
1.
Something that grows inward.





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"Ingrowth" Quotes from Famous Books



... may note here the development of the eye. This is shown in Figure 4, Sheet 24. A hollow cup-shaped vesicle from the brain grows out towards an at first hollow cellular ingrowth from the epidermis. The cavity within the wall of the cup derived from the brain is obliterated, [and the stalk withers,] the cup becomes the retina, and -its stalk- [thence fibres grow back to the brain to form] the optic nerve. The cellular ingrowth is the ...
— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata • H. G. Wells
... is diseased, it tends to grow inwards over the articular surfaces (Fig. 122), shutting off the supra-patellar pouch and fixing the knee-cap to the femur, and diminishing the area of the articular surfaces. The ingrowth of synovial membrane may fill up the cavity of the joint, or may divide it up into compartments. Ulceration of the cartilage and caries of the articular surfaces ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles


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