involution
英 ['ɪnvə'lju:ʃən] 美 [ˌɪnvə'luʃən]

n.

卷绕，回旋；复归；包卷；对合

英英释义

involution[ ,invə'lju:ʃən ]

• n.
  • reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)
  • a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction
  • marked by elaborately complex detail

    同义词：elaboratenesselaborationintricacy

  • the act of sharing in the activities of a group

    同义词：engagementparticipationinvolvement

  • the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power

    同义词：exponentiation

  • the action of enfolding something

    同义词：enfolding

权威例句

Agricultural involution: the process of ecological change in Indonesia. Clifford Geertz
The involution of the ageing human thymic epithelium is independent of puberty. A morphometric study
The head involution defective gene of Drosophila melanogaster functions in programmed cell death
Skeletal Involution by Age-associated Oxidative Stress and Its Acceleration by Loss of Sex Steroids
Vascular apoptosis and involution in gliomas precede neovascularization: a novel concept for glioma growth and angiogenesis.
Apoptotic cell death and tissue remodelling during mouse mammary gland involution.
Two distinct phases of apoptosis in mammary gland involution: proteinase-independent and -dependent pathways
Suppression of epithelial apoptosis and delayed mammary gland involution in mice with a conditional knockout of Stat3
Mammary plasminogen activator: correlation with involution, hormonal modulation and comparison between normal and neoplastic tissue
Binding to EGF Receptor of a Laminin-5 EGF-like Fragment Liberated during MMP-Dependent Mammary Gland Involution