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involution
noun
- an involving or being involved; entanglement
- anything that is involved; complication; intricacy
- Anat. the process of rolling or curling inward, as in the formation of a gastrula
- Biol. a retrograde or degenerative change
- Gram. an involved construction, esp. one created by a clause interposed between a subject and its predicate
- Math. the raising of a quantity to any given power
- Med.
- the return of an organ to its normal size after distention, as of the womb after childbirth
- a decline in the normal functions of the human body, or of an organ, that occurs with age, as the changes taking place at menopause
Related Forms:
- involutional adjective
- involutionary adjective
See involution in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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