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When the womb has been long everted and is gorged with blood, inflamed, and friable there is often the additional disadvantage that the animal is unable or unwilling to rise.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

—Thick and moderately everted lips occur in nearly half the series.

From A Racial Study of the Fijians by Gabel, Norman E.

The lip is swollen and everted, and there is a considerable area of induration around.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

B, The same, partially everted by eversion of the sides, as in the Nemertine proboscis and Gastropod eye-tentacle = pleurecbolic.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various

Within the thorax, there are some longitudinal muscles, without transverse stri�, which, I believe, enter the short limbs, but not the abdomen, as I infer from the latter not being everted when they are pulled.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles