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Invagination vs Involution - What's the difference?

invagination | involution |

As nouns the difference between invagination and involution

is that invagination is the process where an anatomical part invaginates upon itself or into another structure while involution is entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.

invagination

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (medicine) The process where an anatomical part invaginates upon itself or into another structure.
  • One of the methods by which the various germinal layers of the ovum are differentiated.

    • 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