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Ovulation vs Involution - What's the difference?

ovulation | involution |

In physiology|lang=en terms the difference between ovulation and involution

is that ovulation is (physiology) the release of an ovum from the ovary while involution is (physiology) the regressive changes in the body occurring with old age.

As nouns the difference between ovulation and involution

is that ovulation is (physiology) the release of an ovum from the ovary while involution is entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.

ovulation

English

(wikipedia ovulation)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (physiology) The release of an ovum from the ovary.

    • 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