incurvation

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Clubbed finger-ends, in the adult, are seen mostly, with incurvation of the nails, in advancing consumption.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Behind this, from the concave side of the incurvation, proceeded another long cilium, so delicate as to be discernible only by the use of the highest powers and careful management of the light.

From Discourses Biological and Geological Essays by Huxley, Thomas Henry

Empty cells becoming confluent, vesicular by incurvation of the circular margin, forming a deep and round umbilication.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

With the second leaf there was a trace of incurvation in 2 hrs.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles

This incurvation serves, as already shown, to prevent insects from being washed away by the rain; but it likewise serves for another end.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles