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  • verb Present participle of invaginate.

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Examples

  • With crosswise implantation it was shown that the invaginating cells of the graft were carried along by the gastrulating movements of the host and that thus the substratum was laid down along the long axis of the embryo.

    Hans Spemann - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • In the course of gastrulation the invaginating material is rolled inwards around the upper lip of the blastopore.

    Hans Spemann - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • Thus, the material first invaginated lies farthest towards the front underneath the subsequent brain, while material invaginating later underlies the future spinal cord.

    Hans Spemann - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • If one watches an amoeba under the microscope he may see it move about the field, creeping along the surface of the glass plate; throwing out a pseudopodium here; invaginating a mouth or stomach there; taking in and digesting minute plant organisms; transporting itself across the field of the microscope through the aid of improvised locomotory organs.

    The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male Winfield Scott Hall

  • The distal end of the ureter was ligated, and the proximal end implanted in the bladder according to Van Hook's method, which consists in tying the lowered end of the ureter, then making a slit into it, and invaginating the upper end into the lower through this slit.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Hook's method, which consists in tying the lowered end of the ureter, then making a slit into it, and invaginating the upper end into the lower through this slit.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • The forefinger is then to be passed in at the aperture and pushed upwards, invaginating the detached fascia before it, and it must be made to enter the inguinal canal far enough to define the lower border of the internal oblique muscle stretched over it.

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

  • Spirochete cells can be seen attached to the Caco-2 cell surface (C), and invaginating into pit-like structures (arrow) in the Caco-2 cell membrane (D).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ram Naresh et al. 2009

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