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No sound escaped from Imbrie, but his smooth face turned hideous with rage; the lips everted over the clenched teeth, the ruddy skin livid and blotchy.
From The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] by Hulbert Footner
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 Alexander Miles
The vocal sac structure of taurinus differs from that of other members of the genus in that the skin of taurinus forms an everted pouch, which dangles loosely beneath the supratympanic fold.
From A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by William E. Duellman
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
The mouth is anterior and slightly ventral; it leads into a protrusible pharynx armed with recurved teeth that can be everted.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
