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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
invagination/-ˈneɪʃ(ə)n/

▶noun chiefly Anatomy & Biology the action or process of being turned inside out or folded back on itself to form a cavity or pouch.

■ a cavity or pouch so formed.

– derivatives
invaginate verb.

– origin C17: from mod. L. invaginatio(n-), based on in-2 + L. vagina ‘sheath’.

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