to invaginate

Examples

• All

• The afferent nerve terminal appears to invaginate slightly into the outer hair cell, and there is a postsynaptic darkly stained region along the surface of the nerve fiber involved in the synapse.

  Academic text (1998)

• Bone wax was gently placed over the cartilage and round window niche (Figure 4, B), and care was taken not to invaginate the round window membrane.

  Academic text (2009)

• OK, So the plasma membrane can invaginate, the plasma membrane can invaginate.

• Get invaginated much?

  Fiction book (1994)

• Placement of a polyethylene or metal stent was almost always successful; the one exception was a patient in whom the metal stent could not be released due to a leak in the invaginated membrane at the site of the elevator bridge of the duodenoscope.

  Academic text (1992)

• Invaginated art histories, receptive rather than projective, directly suggest a gendered or specifically feminist charge, but they can be figured more generally in topological terms as deeply informed or channeled surfaces.

  Academic text (1994)

• In the developing embryo, certain tissues will invaginate to form organs like the heart.

• During the surgery, the surgeon noted how the tissue tended to invaginate at the site of the incision.

• The epithelial layer can invaginate to create a protective cavity within the skin.

Synonyms

I

to introvert

vsto invaginate

• Specialized

9.9

To fold inward as a body part or edge

folds inward to create a pouch sheath or cavity

How Deep

to invaginate

• Specialized

9.9

to indent

1 3.4

dent

46 1.0

to fold

220 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology