Subinvolution vs Involution - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between subinvolution and involution

is that subinvolution is partial or incomplete involution while involution is entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.

Partial or incomplete involution.

subinvolution of the uterus

(Webster 1913)

(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.

* involutional * involutionary