invagination

From invaginate +‎ -ion.

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

invagination (countable and uncountable, plural invaginations)

1. (medicine) The process where an anatomical part invaginates upon itself or into another structure.
2. One of the methods by which the various germinal layers of the ovum are differentiated.

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invagination f (plural invaginations)

1. invagination

• “invagination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.