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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 Bell, Joseph

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 Duellman, William E.

By next morning every larva was fixed to the glass and had everted its two polypides.

From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Annandale, Nelson

The lip is everted, and its mucous membrane unduly prominent.

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

The everted hemipenis reaches posteriorly to the eighth subcaudal scale.

From A Revision of Snakes of the Genus Conophis (Family Colubridae, from Middle America) by Wellman, John