infolding
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of infolding
Example Sentences
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Twitching and infolding to the squealing feedback, his arms drawing invisible trails on the air, Nodine searches time and space for the echoes of his lost youth.
From The Guardian • Apr. 27, 2013
A rotavirus vaccine was suspended in the United States in 1999 after public-health officials received 15 reports of intussusception, an infolding of the bowel, in vaccinated infants.
From Nature • May 25, 2011
The mechanism is uncertain, but the live-virus vaccine might cause swelling of bowel lymph nodes and increase contraction, leading to infolding.
From Nature • May 25, 2011
Through the carefully-preserved windows, many-paned and quaint, of these hidden rooms, the infolding walls of the new house were blank and black.
From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Nicholson, Meredith
On the right, below, those two divine sleepers, redeeming human nature, and infolding expectation in a robe of pearly sheen.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Fuller, Margaret
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