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The rectum may become everted and paralyzed, and the bowels move spontaneously.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
Ectropium is the opposite condition from entropium; in it the eyelids are everted and the palpebral conjunctiva is exposed.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
The colour is generally black-and-tan or brownish, the body is extremely long and cylindrical; the ears are large and pendulous, the legs broad, thick and twisted, with everted paws.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
The lip is protruded, the mucous membrane everted, and, when the lower lip is implicated, it becomes pendulous and is liable to ulcerate.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
It is a powerful muscular organ, of great size in proportion to the animal, capable of complete retraction within the carapace, and of being everted wholly, or partially, at will.
From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Henry J. Slack
