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Epiboly vs Involution - What's the difference?

epiboly | involution |

As nouns the difference between epiboly and involution

is that epiboly is the expansion of one cell sheet over other cells, as takes place during gastrulation or secondary intention wound healing while involution is entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.

epiboly

English

Noun

(-) (wikipedia epiboly)
  • (embryology) The expansion of one cell sheet over other cells, as takes place during gastrulation or secondary intention wound healing.

    • Derived terms

    * epibolic * epibolically * epibolize * epibolization

    involution

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy
  • :* 1968': ‘Gomez,’ said the mortician, ‘is an expert only on the '''involutions of his own rectum.’ — Anthony Burgess, ''Enderby Outside
  • (mathematics) An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.
  • * 1996 , Alfred J. Menezes et al, Handbook of Applied Cryptography , CRC Press, page 10:
    • Involutions have the property that they are their own inverses.
  • (physiology) The regressive changes in the body occurring with old age.
  • (mathematics, obsolete) A power: the result of raising one number to the power of another.

    • Derived terms

    * involutional * involutionary

    See also

    * dual * selfdual