Look up: Involution

1. Involution
   The return of an organ to its normal size or condition after enlargement, as of the uterus after parturition. A decline in size or activity of other tissues; the mammary gland tissues normally involute with advancing lactation.
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2. involution
   See incisure.
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3. involution
   [n] - reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth) 2. [n] - a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction 3. [n] - the action of enfolding something
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4. Involution
   Involution: 1. Literally, a turning inward or rolling inward. 2. A decrease in size, usually after an increase. The uterus involutes after pregnancy. 3. A retrograde change. After treatment, a tumor may involute. 4. With advancing age, there may be physical and emotional involution. This process has...
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5. involution
   (1) Restoration of the normal size of an organ. (2) Infolding of the edges of a sheet of cells, as in some developmental processes, notably gastrulation.
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6. Involution
   In`vo·lu'tion noun [ Latin involutio : confer French involution . See Involve .] 1. The act of involving or infolding. 2. The state of being entangled or involved; complication; entanglement. « All things ar...
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7. involution
   1. A rolling or turning inward. ... 2. One of the movements involved in the gastrulation of many animals. ... 3. A retrograde change of the entire body or in a particular organ, as the retrograde changes in the female genital organs that result in normal size after delivery. ... 4. The progressive d...
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8. involution
   enfolding noun the action of enfolding something
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9. involution
   noun a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction
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10. involution
    (in″vo-loo´shәn) a rolling or turning inward. a retrograde change of the entire body or in a particular organ, as the retrograde changes in the female genital organs that result in normal size after pregnancy ends. the progressive degeneration occurring naturally with advancing ag...
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11. Involution
    • (n.) The state of being entangled or involved; complication; entanglement. • (n.) The act of involving or infolding. • (n.) The return of an enlarged part or organ to its normal size, as of the uterus after pregnancy. • (n.) The relation which exists between three or more sets ...
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12. involution
    (from the article `social change`) ...of the change could, however, be one of decrease or a combination of growth and decrease. An example of this last process is what American ...
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13. involution
    (L. involutio; in into + volvere to roll) 1. a rolling or turning inward. 2. one of the movements involved in the gastrulation of many animals. 3. a retrograde change of the entire body or in a particular organ, as the retrograde changes in the female genital organs that result in normal size after delivery. 4. the progressive degeneration occur...
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14. Involution
    The postpartum process in which the uterus returns to its normal size and shape before the pregnancy occurred. As the uterus contracts to shrink back to its pre-pregnant state, some women may feel uncomfortable pains in the abdomen.
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15. Involution
    Involution is the calculation of any power of a quantity, that is, the multiplication of a quantity by itself any number of times. Thus 2x2x2=8; here 8, the third power of 2, is found by involution. Evolution is the opposite process.
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16. involution
    Type: Term Pronunciation: in′vō-lū′shŭn Definitions: 1. Return of an enlarged organ to normal size. 2. Turning inward of the edges of a part. 3. In psychiatry, mental decline associated with advanced age. Synonyms: catagenesis
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17. INVOLUTION
    Period of repair in which there is a return to normal size and composition, as of the uterus following birth and expulsion of the placenta.
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18. Involution
    (mathematics) In mathematics, an `(anti-)involution`, or an `involutary function`, is a function f that is its own inverse: :f(f(x)) = x for all x in the domain of f. General properties: Any involution is a bijection. The identity map is a triv...
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19. Involution
    (esoterism) The term `involution` refers to different things depending on the writer. In some instances it refers to a process that occurs prior to evolution and gives rise to the cosmos, in others an aspect of evolution, and still others a process that follows the completion of evolution in ...
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20. Involution
    (Meher Baba) For Indian spiritual master Meher Baba, `involution` is the inner path of the human soul to the Self. Charles Haynes, in describing Meher Baba`s sense of involution writes, "The old and new impressions, both of which create a veil over consciousness, gradually wear away, rev...
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21. Involution
    (philosophy) In philosophy, `involution` refers to situation where a process or object is "turned in" upon itself. Involuted values : In meta-ethics, involution of values is when an otherwise convenient and decent system of values is taken to its inevitable logical conclusion and re...
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22. Involution
    (medicine) `Involution` of an organ is the shrinking or return to a former size. Examples: Thymus: The thymus continues to grow between birth and puberty and then begins to atrophy, a process directed by the high levels of circulating sex hormones. Proportional to thymic size, thymic activity...
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