incurvation

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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

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

But as the incurvation lasts for so short a time, any such benefit can be of only slight importance, yet perhaps greater than at first appears.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles

In 1 hr. there was apparently some slight incurvation, and this was well-marked in 3 hrs.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles

A short space of this margin, opposite the fly, showed a trace of incurvation after 3 hrs., and this became strongly pronounced in 7 hrs.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles