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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,
eversion
of eyelids
; ectropium.

Webster 1828 Edition

Eversion

EVER'SION

,
Noun.
[L. eversio.] An overthrowing; destruction.
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

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English

Noun

eversion ‎(plural eversions)

  1. 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
  2. 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.
  3. (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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