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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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Tumors Juvenile hemangioma Rapidly involuting congenital hemangioma Noninvoluting congenital hemangioma Kaposiform hemangioendothelioma Tufted angioma * Vascular malformations High-flow Arteriovenous malformation Low-flow Venous malformation Lymphatic malformation Lymphatic-venous malformation Capillary (or venular) malformation (portwine stain)
Classification of vascular anomalies by Kennedy, David W. / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
As tungiasis may occur at any topographic site (9), the whole body surface of the patient was examined for the presence of vital, egg-producing, involuting, or dead fleas.
Severe tungiasis in underprivileged communities: case series from ... by Heukelbach, Jorg / Emerging Infectious Diseases
But unlike Paracelsian prime matter, this does not lead to predestined elements, but to perpetual transmutations and critical problems involuting their energies back into the potential of prime matter.
Reverse transmutations: Beroalde de Verville's parody of Paracelsus ... by Giordano, Michael J. / Renaissance Quarterly
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