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

Then, involution started being used to describe a similar dynamic in industries where a mismatch of supply and demand has spawned aggressive price wars.

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