eversion en · NOUN
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) An act of turning inside out.
Somewhere along the line, he managed to complete a kind of psychic eversion, a kind of total transformation of internal affairs.
1986, Harald William Fawkner, The ecstatic world of John Cowper Powys, page 76:When it comes to vacuum bubble eversion, a vacuum bubble also passes through asymmetrical stages in the eversion process
1999, Kip K. Sewell, The cosmic sphere, page 125:
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(countable, uncountable) The state of being turned inside out.
If there is no eversion of the lips, there may be no symptoms present.
1894, Charles Bingham Penrose with Albert Ernest Truby and William Alexander Newman Dorland, Syllabus of the Lectures on Gynecology, page 44:
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(countable, uncountable) The condition of being turned outward.
The remaining sprains are eversion injuries, in which the foot turns out and the ankle turns in.
1989 September 14, “HEALTH; Personal Health”, in New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| eversions | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Relateds
Translations (11)
is umsnúningur (the state of being turned inside out) · is umsnúningur (an act of turning inside out) · bg обръщане наопаки (an act of turning inside out) · is úthverfing (an act of turning inside out) · ca eversió (an act of turning inside out) · es eversión (medicine: the condition of being turned outward) · is úthverfing (medicine: the condition of being turned outward) · is úthverfing (the state of being turned inside out) · ca eversió (medicine: the condition of being turned outward) · fr éversion (medicine: the condition of being turned outward) · ca eversió (the state of being turned inside out)