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involute
(redirected from involutes)

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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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Fistulas form when the mesenchyme separating the cleft and pouch involutes and the cleft and pouch unite.
These experiments have demonstrated that brown fat in the rat involutes with the onset of maturity.
 
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