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eversion
[ih-vur-zhuhn, -shuhn]
noun
a turning or being turned outward or inside out.
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
The interior and coastal Fijians show this trait a little more often than the others, whereas the eastern people have least lip eversion.
D, E, A similar simple introvert in course of eversion by the forward movement, not of its sides, but of its apex, as in the proboscidean Rhabdocoels = acrecbolic.
The lids are swollen and inflamed, and indeed this may be so marked as to cause involuntary eversion, exposing the reddened conjunctiva to view.
Accident or disease occasionally causes permanent eversion, or protrusion, of mucous membrane.
In eversion the lateral edge of the foot is drawn up, the sole looking away from the middle line—analogous to pronation of the hand.
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