evaginate
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Etymology edit
Latin evaginare (“to unsheath”), from ex (“from”) and vagina (“sheath”).
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evaginate (third-person singular simple present evaginates, present participle evaginating, simple past and past participle evaginated)
- (intransitive) To evert a bodily organ inside surface to outside.
- (transitive) To cause (a bodily organ or part) to turn inside out.
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evaginate (not comparable)
- Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated.
- an evaginate membrane
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