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- noun Plural form of
ingrowth .
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Examples
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Its cell walls become leaky enough to let the food flow in easily, and it sprouts fingery ingrowths, where it can store the food.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Its cell walls become leaky enough to let the food flow in easily, and it sprouts fingery ingrowths, where it can store the food.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Its cell walls become leaky enough to let the food flow in easily, and it sprouts fingery ingrowths, where it can store the food.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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If the canal of Schlemm is for any reason narrowed or plugged " through fibrous ingrowths or inflammation, infection, or the gathering of debris " the aqueous humor cannot escape rapidly enough and the internal pressure begins to rise.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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We see that the horny laminæ are ingrowths of the rete Malpighii, ploughing into and excavating the corium into the shape of leaves -- the sensitive laminæ.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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As yet, these cellular ingrowths (which are destined to be the _horny_ laminæ, and cut up the corium into _sensitive_ laminæ) are free from irregularities or secondary laminæ.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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The horny laminæ are simply beautifully regular epidermal ingrowths cutting up the corium into minute leaf-like projections.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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This observer noted the fact that ingrowths of horn such as we are describing nearly always take place in false quarter, or after a sand-crack has been repaired, and that they commonly occur after the operation of grooving the wall in the manner we have just shown.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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Before these are to be observed other changes in connection with the ingrowths are to be noticed.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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The epithelial ingrowths hang down from the epidermis into the corium like the teeth of a comb
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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