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n. - The folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface; The condition of being folded inward or sheathed.

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  • The invagination of the blastula
  • No sign of a cloacal invagination could be made out with certainty.
  • The gastrula, finally, is the two-layered sac formed from the blastula, typically by invagination of its wall.
  • Beneath the primordial brain an invagination of the ectoderm against the entoderm is formed, later to become the mouth.
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