eversion

See also: e-version

English edit

eversion (countable and uncountable, plural eversions)

An act of turning inside out.
- 1986, Harald William Fawkner, The ecstatic world of John Cowper Powys, page 76:
  Somewhere along the line, he managed to complete a kind of psychic eversion, a kind of total transformation of internal affairs.
- 1999, Kip K. Sewell, The cosmic sphere, page 125:
  When it comes to vacuum bubble eversion, a vacuum bubble also passes through asymmetrical stages in the eversion process
The state of being turned inside out.
- 1894, Charles Bingham Penrose with Albert Ernest Truby and William Alexander Newman Dorland, Syllabus of the Lectures on Gynecology, page 44:
  If there is no eversion of the lips, there may be no symptoms present.
(medicine) The condition of being turned outward.
- 1989 September 14, “HEALTH; Personal Health”, in New York Times:
  The remaining sprains are eversion injuries, in which the foot turns out and the ankle turns in.

an act of turning inside out

the state of being turned inside out

medicine: the condition of being turned outward