involution of the uterus

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• Involution — A retrograde change. After treatment, a tumor may involute. With advancing age, there may be physical and emotional involution. * * * 1. Return of an enlarged organ to normal size. 2. Turning inward of the edges of a part. 3. In psychiatry,… …   Medical dictionary

• Involution (medicine) — Involution of an organ is the shrinking or return to a former size. Contents 1 Examples 1.1 Thymus 1.2 Uterus 1.3 Mammary gland …   Wikipedia

• Involution (disambiguation) — Involution may refer to:In mathematics: * Involution, a function that is its own inverse. * Involute, a construction in the differential geometry of curves.In biology: * Involution (biology), the process by which the uterus is transformed from… …   Wikipedia

• Involution — In vo*lu tion, n. [L. involutio: cf. F. involution. See {Involve}.] [1913 Webster] 1. The act of involving or infolding. [1913 Webster] 2. The state of being entangled or involved; complication; entanglement. [1913 Webster] All things are mixed,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Involution (biology) — In biology, involution is the process by which the uterus is transformed from pregnant to non pregnant state …   Wikipedia

• involution — n. 1) the shrinking of the uterus to its normal size after childbirth. 2) atrophy of the corpus luteum, which occurs after pregnancy or if implantation of the embryo does not occur. 3) atrophy of an organ in old age …   The new mediacal dictionary

• involution — n. 1 the process of involving. 2 an entanglement. 3 intricacy. 4 curling inwards. 5 a part that curls upwards. 6 Math. the raising of a quantity to any power. 7 Physiol. the reduction in size of an organ in old age, or when its purpose has been… …   Useful english dictionary

• Puerperium — The time immediately after the delivery of a baby. (In Latin a puerpera is a woman in childbirth since puer means child and parere means to give birth.) Puerperal fever is childbirth (or childbed) fever due to an infection usually of the… …   Medical dictionary

• subinvolution — Arrest of the normal involution of the uterus following childbirth with the organ remaining abnormally large. * * * sub·in·vo·lu·tion .in və lü shən n partial or incomplete involution <subinvolution of the uterus> * * * n. failure of the… …   Medical dictionary

• degeneration — 1. Deterioration; passing from a higher to a lower level or type. 2. A worsening of mental, physical, or moral qualities. 3. A retrogressive pathologic change in cells or tissues, in consequence of which their functions are often impaired or… …   Medical dictionary

• superinvolution — An extreme reduction in size of the uterus, after childbirth, below the normal size of the nongravid organ. SYN: hyperinvolution. * * * su·per·in·vo·lu·tion (soo″pər in″vo looґshən) prolonged involution of the uterus after… …   Medical dictionary