INVAGINATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does invagination mean? 

• INVAGINATION (noun)
  The noun INVAGINATION has 2 senses:

1. the condition of being folded inward or sheathed

2. the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface

  Familiarity information: INVAGINATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INVAGINATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The condition of being folded inward or sheathed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

introversion; invagination

Hypernyms ("invagination" is a kind of...):

condition (a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing)

Derivation:

invaginate (sheathe)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

infolding; introversion; intussusception; invagination

Context example:

the invagination of the blastula

Hypernyms ("invagination" is a kind of...):

biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)

Derivation:

invaginate (fold inwards)

 Context examples 

A thin space between the outer and inner mitochondrial membranes formed by an invagination of the inner mitochondrial membrane.

(Mitochondrial Crista, NCI Thesaurus)

The neoplastic columnar mucin-producing epithelial cells form papillary projections or crypt-like invaginations.

(Pancreatic Mucinous-Cystic Neoplasm with Intermediate Grade Dysplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

It results from the invagination and proliferation of epithelial cells in the underlying stroma.

(Ethmoid Sinus Inverted Papilloma, NCI Thesaurus)

The uptake by a cell of material from the environment by invagination of its plasma membrane.

(Endocytotic Process, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

Endocytosis Inhibition involves interference with, or restraint of, cellular uptake of extracellular materials within membrane-limited vacuoles or microvesicles by invagination of the plasma membrane.

(Endocytosis Inhibition, NCI Thesaurus)

Caveolin 2, encoded by the CAV2 gene, is a scaffolding protein and a major component of the inner surface of caveolae (small invaginations of the plasma membrane).

(Caveolin 2, NCI Thesaurus)

Endocytosis Induction involves initiation of cellular uptake of extracellular materials within membrane-limited vacuoles or microvesicles by invagination of the plasma membrane.

(Endocytosis Induction, NCI Thesaurus)

A tube-like invagination of the epidermis from which the hair shaft develops and into which the sebaceous glands open; the follicle is lined by a cellular inner and outer root sheath of epidermal origin and is invested with a fibrous sheath derived from the dermis.

(Hair follicle, NCI Thesaurus)