| 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 degeneration occurring naturally with advancing age, resulting in shrivelling of organs or tissues. Origin: L. Involutio, volvere = to roll (18 Nov 1997) |
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| involution cyst | A mammary cyst occurring at the menopause, due to fibrocystic disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| involution form | An irregular or atypical bacterial cell produced as a result of exposure to unfavorable conditions. (05 Mar 2000) |
| involution of the uterus | The process of reduction of the uterus to its normal nonpregnant size and state following childbirth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| involutional | Relating to involution. (05 Mar 2000) |
| involutional depression | Depression or psychosis first occurring in the involutional years (40 to 55 for women, 50 to 65 for men). (05 Mar 2000) |
| involutional melancholia | A depressive disorder of middle life, commonly associated with the climacteric. (05 Mar 2000) |
| involutional psychosis | An obsolete term for mental disturbance occurring during the menopause or later life. (05 Mar 2000) |
| involve | 1. To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine. "Some of serpent kind . . . Involved Their snaky folds." (Milton) 2. To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity. "And leave a singed bottom all involved With stench and smoke." (Milton) 3. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure. "Involved discourses." 4. To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply. "He knows His end with mine involved." (Milton) "The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction." (Tillotson) 5. To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge. "The gathering number, as it moves along, Involves a vast involuntary throng." (Pope) "Earth with hell To mingle and involve." (Milton) 6. To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery. 7. To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb. "Involved in a deep study." 8. <mathematics> To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power. Imply is opposed to express, or set forth; thus, an implied engagement is one fairly to be understood from the words used or the circumstances of the case, though not set forth in form. Involve goes beyond the mere interpretation of things into their necessary relations; and hence, if one thing involves another, it so contains it that the two must go together by an indissoluble connection. War, for example, involves wide spread misery and death; the premises of a syllogism involve the conclusion. Synonym: To imply, include, implicate, complicate, entangle, embarrass, overwhelm. Origin: L. Involvere, involutum, to roll about, wrap up; pref. In- in + volvere to roll: cf. OF. Involver. See Voluble, and cf. Involute. (28 Oct 1998) |
| involved | <zoology> Same as Involute. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| involuntary muscle |
a muscle that is not under the control of the will; such muscles are, for the most part, composed of nonstriated fibers.
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| involution |
A permutation that satisfies that "inverse function of f is f".
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| involute |
(n) A curve defined as the spiral trace of a point on a flexible line unwinding from around a line, circle, or polygon. The contacting surfaces between gear teeth are designed as involutes.
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| involucre |
the indusium of members of the Hymenophyllaceae.
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| involute |
Of the margin of the pileus: Rolled in, especially when young. (17)
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| invol | a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction |
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| invol | reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth) |
| invol | a major depressive episode associated with the climacteric |
| invol | make complex or intricate or complicated |
| invol | occupy or engage the interest of |
| invol | wrap |
| invol | require as useful, just, or proper |
| invol | contain as a part |
| invol | have as a necessary feature or consequence |
| invol | connect closely and often incriminatingly |
| invol | engage as a participant |
| invol | emotionally involved |