involution
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This process is called thymic involution, and it reduces the body's ability to produce new T cells.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 29, 2025
The efforts so far focus on several industries where involution is particularly pronounced such as steel, coal, batteries, electric vehicles and food delivery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2025
“I thought by opening a stall I could escape the involution of looking for work,” one vendor wrote on Xiaohongshu.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
"If this can't be halted, the trends in place could lead to a progressive and unsustainable involution of the human capital of most of southern Italy."
From Reuters ● Jan. 25, 2023
The chief peculiarity of this exudation, and of these changes in the tissue-elements where it recurs, is the rapidity with which, when involution is in progress, the fluid is absorbed and the inflammatory elements disappear.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
