• Eversion

    Full definition of eversion

    Noun

    eversion

    (plural eversions)
    1. An act of turning inside out.
      • 1986, Harald William Fawkner, The ecstatic world of John Cowper Powys‎, 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, When it comes to vacuum bubble eversion, a vacuum bubble also passes through asymmetrical stages in the eversion process
    2. The state of being turned inside out.
      • 1894, Charles Bingham Penrose, Syllabus of the Lectures on Gynecology, If there is no eversion of the lips, there may be no symptoms present.
    3. (medicine) The condition of being turned outward.
      • 1989, Sep 14, HEALTH; Personal Health, The remaining sprains are eversion injuries, in which the foot turns out and the ankle turns in.

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