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Invagination

The condition of an invaginated organ or part.

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Condition 76% connected

Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength,…

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Invaginate 74% connected

To insert as in a sheath; to produce intussusception in.

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Invaginate 74% connected

To insert as in a sheath; to produce intussusception in.

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Infolding 92% connected

of Infold

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Introversion 92% connected

The act of introverting, or the state of being introverted; the act of turning the mind inward.

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Intussusception 92% connected

The reception of one part within another.

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Analogue noun · 78% connection

An organ which is equivalent in its functions to a different organ in another species or group, or even in the same group; as, the gil…

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Appendage noun · 78% connection

A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates.

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Base noun · 78% connection

That part of an organ by which it is attached to another more central organ.

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Biorgan noun · 78% connection

A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.

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Capsule noun · 78% connection

A membranous sac containing fluid, or investing an organ or joint; as, the capsule of the lens of the eye. Also, a capsulelike organ.

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Concussion noun · 78% connection

A condition of lowered functional activity, without visible structural change, produced in an organ by a shock, as by fall or blow; as…

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Deduplication noun · 78% connection

The division of that which is morphologically one organ into two or more, as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluste…

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Degeneration noun · 78% connection

That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for…

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Disfunction noun · 78% connection

(medicine) any disturbance in the functioning of an organ or body part or a disturbance in the functioning of a social group; "erectil…

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Dysfunction noun · 78% connection

(medicine) any disturbance in the functioning of an organ or body part or a disturbance in the functioning of a social group; "erectil…

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Evisceration noun · 78% connection

surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient

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Flask noun · 78% connection

The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the c…

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Foot noun · 78% connection

The muscular locomotive organ of a mollusk. It is a median organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a flat…

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Fundus noun · 78% connection

(anatomy) the base of a hollow organ or that part of the organ farthest from its opening; "the uterine fundus"; "the fundus of the sto…

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Head noun · 78% connection

The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an an…

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Hernia noun · 78% connection

A condition in which an organ pushes through an opening in the muscle or tissue.

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Hypertrophy noun · 78% connection

A condition of overgrowth or excessive development of an organ or part; -- the opposite of atrophy.

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Insolvency noun · 78% connection

The condition of being insolvent; the state or condition of a person who is insolvent; the condition of one who is unable to pay his d…

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