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Webster 1913 Edition
Eversion
E-ver′sion
,Noun.
[L.
eversio
: cf. F. éversion
.] 1.
The act of eversing; destruction.
Jer. Taylor.
2.
The state of being turned back or outward;
as,
; ectropium. eversion
of eyelidsWebster 1828 Edition
Eversion
EVER'SION
,Noun.
Eversion of the eye-lids, ectropium, a disease in which the eye-lids are turned outward, so as to expose the red internal tunic.
Definition 2024
eversion
eversion
See also: e-version
English
Noun
eversion (plural eversions)
- An act of turning inside out.
- 1986, Harald William Fawkner, The ecstatic world of John Cowper Powys, page 76:
- Somewhere along the line, he managed to complete a kind of psychic eversion, a kind of total transformation of internal affairs.
- 1999, Kip K. Sewell, The cosmic sphere, page 125:
- When it comes to vacuum bubble eversion, a vacuum bubble also passes through asymmetrical stages in the eversion process
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- The state of being turned inside out.
- 1894, Charles Bingham Penrose; Albert Ernest Truby, William Alexander Newman Dorland, Syllabus of the Lectures on Gynecology, page 44:
- If there is no eversion of the lips, there may be no symptoms present.
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- (medicine) The condition of being turned outward.
- 1989 September 14, “HEALTH; Personal Health”, in New York Times:
- The remaining sprains are eversion injuries, in which the foot turns out and the ankle turns in.
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Translations
an act of turning inside out
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the state of being turned inside out
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medicine: the condition of being turned outward
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