intussusception

Nouns

  • (n) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface
    • the invagination of the blastula
    infolding, introversion, invagination,
  • (n) (biology) growth in the surface area of a cell by the deposit of new particles between existing particles in the cell wall

Synonyms

infolding introversion invagination

Words of close approximity