Evaginate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Evaginate is a verb meaning (intransitive) To evert a bodily organ inside surface to outside.
Meaning
(intransitive) To evert a bodily organ inside surface to outside.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To cause (a bodily organ or part) to turn inside out.
- Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated.
Example Sentences
an evaginate membrane
Word Forms
- evaginates
- evaginating
- evaginated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include evert, eviscerate, exenterate, disembowel, eventerate, evertuate.
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