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involute
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involute (in´vloot),
v to decrease normally, in size and functional activity, an organ whose role in the body economy is temporary or confined to certain periods of life. Involute should be distinguished from
atrophy, which means to waste away from abnormal causes.


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3) However, the mass they described as a "venous hemangioma" is more appropriately termed a "venous malformation," especially since a hemangioma would likely have involuted completely in a patient aged 28 years.
Classification of vascular anomalies by Kennedy, David W. / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
The exhibition is an inventory of brooding melancholics from the history of Western representation, beginning with the antique: artists, saints, and ill-fated lovers as well as allegorical personifications of Melancholy itself, at the center of which sits Durer's great Melencolia I of 1514, forever fixed in place as the involuted grande dame of imagination in anguish.
"Melancholy: Genius and Madness in the West", Galeries Nationales du ... by Weiss, Jeffrey / Artforum International
56) To Bruno, on the other hand, it is not matter that is overabundant in its possibility to be informed; if anything, it is the divine potency that is infinite and which infinitely inserts new species into nat ure -- matter in involuted, complicated form, to use a Cusanian term.
Giordano Bruno: Neoplatonism and the wheel of memory in the De umbris ... by Farinella, Alessandro G. / Renaissance Quarterly
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