Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act of turning inside out.
  • noun The condition of being turned inside out.
  • noun The condition of being turned outward.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Overthrow; subversion; destruction.
  • noun A turning outward, or inside out.
  • noun In botany, the protrusion of organs that are generally produced in a cavity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of eversing; destruction.
  • noun The state of being turned back or outward; ; ectropium.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An act of turning inside out.
  • noun The state of being turned inside out.
  • noun medicine The condition of being turned outward.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of turning inside out
  • noun the position of being turned outward

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English eversioun, from Old French eversion, from Latin ēversiō, ēversiōn-, from ēversus, past participle of ēvertere, to overturn; see evert.]

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Examples

  • The most important exercise is using a theraband where she's pushing the foot outward, called eversion.

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  • Less commonly, the ankle can twist outward ( "eversion" injury), resulting in injury to the other ligaments on the inside of the ankle joint ( "deltoid" injury).

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  • You can read the original story in the free eversion here.

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  • I'm going to go to bed now and try to convince myself that it's really just another sprain, and so I should ignore the odd swelling on the top of my foot and eversion pain that originates from there...

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  • I'm going to go to bed now and try to convince myself that it's really just another sprain, and so I should ignore the odd swelling on the top of my foot and eversion pain that originates from there...

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  • If you look at 13 there are sites that offer eversion of print books for free.

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  • Cervical eversion also called ectropion means that the kind of tissue lining the cervical canal also grows on the outer vaginal part of the cervix, making it red, with a bumpy-looking texture that is smooth to the touch.

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  • Most cases referred to as erosion in the past were really eversion.

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  • But there is yet another way, by which you may perceive not only the perversion but the eversion of their discourse, and the reduction of it entirely to nothing.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • The union of the extremities is made by eversion of the edges, which are united not by their surface of section, but by their endothelial surfaces.

    Alexis Carrel - Nobel Lecture 1967

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