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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of invaginate.

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  • A section of ectoderm invaginates progressively backwards along the body like a zip fastener, rolls itself up into a tube, and is pinched off where the sides of the tube ‘zip up’ so that it ends up running the length of the body between the outer layer and the notochord.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • A section of ectoderm invaginates progressively backwards along the body like a zip fastener, rolls itself up into a tube, and is pinched off where the sides of the tube ‘zip up’ so that it ends up running the length of the body between the outer layer and the notochord.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • The coated pit invaginates and pinches off to form a coated vesicle

    Physiology or Medicine 1985 - Press Release 1985

  • Subsequently this hollow sphere invaginates rather as if you were to take a burst rubber ball and squeeze it together in the hand; only the difference is that the walls grow together so that the orifice of the now double-walled sphere will be small and cleftshaped.

    Physiology or Medicine 1935 - Presentation Speech 1965

  • It invaginates altogether as if it were still in its old place, builds up part of the axial organs and completes itself out of the mesodermal environment.

    Hans Spemann - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • H. Bautzmann has defined the limits of this area by systematic probing outwards and has found that it coincides more or less with the area of the presumptive notochord-mesoderm which invaginates later.

    Hans Spemann - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • The heart invaginates the wall of the serous sac from above and behind, and practically obliterates its cavity, the space being merely a potential one.

    V. Angiology. 4a. The Pericardium 1918

  • Next, in the case of invertebrates, one part of the sphere invaginates or collapses inwards and the embryo now takes the shape of a small sac, the gastrula stage.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • It consists in stitching the two edges of the tendinous aperture by wire; the needle is passed on a sort of small scoop or broad grooved director, which at once invaginates the skin and protects the bowel.

    A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874

  • The mouse inner ear develops from embryonic day (E) 8 from the otic placode, a patch of ectoderm that invaginates and pinches off to form the otic vesicle from which all the sensory epithelial cells and sensory neurons are derived.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hortensia Sanchez-Calderon et al. 2010

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