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What is an invagination?

What is an invagination? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (medicine) The process where an anatomical part invaginates upon itself or into another structure.
  2. One of the methods by which the various germinal layers of the ovum are differentiated.
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The ovary of many teleosts, especially viviparous ones, contains a permanent cavity, which is formed during ovarian development when an invagination of the ovarian surface traps a portion of the coelom.
As the red cell is not a phagocytic cell, it must be assumed that, prior to membrane invagination, considerable changes in the shape of the cell will have to take place.
After establishing a tight junction with the erythrocyte membrane, the merozoite actively enters into what looks like an invagination of the red cell membrane.
The chloroplasts of some plants show the invagination of the inner membrane into granum particularly in Sorghum, maize and sugarcane.
One major characteristic is the invagination of the epidermis in the equivalent of the dermis.
A slight invagination of the ectoderm occurs, and a cloacal membrane forms, separating the ectodermal invagination from the gut cavity.

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