eversion

See also: e-version

English

Noun

eversion (countable and uncountable, plural eversions)

1. An act of turning inside out.
   • 1986, Harald William Fawkner, The ecstatic world of John Cowper Powys, page 76:

     Somewhere along the line, he managed to complete a kind of psychic eversion, a kind of total transformation of internal affairs.

   • 1999, Kip K. Sewell, The cosmic sphere, page 125:

     When it comes to vacuum bubble eversion, a vacuum bubble also passes through asymmetrical stages in the eversion process

2. The state of being turned inside out.
   • 1894, Charles Bingham Penrose with Albert Ernest Truby and William Alexander Newman Dorland, Syllabus of the Lectures on Gynecology, page 44:

     If there is no eversion of the lips, there may be no symptoms present.

3. (medicine) The condition of being turned outward.
   • 1989 September 14, “HEALTH; Personal Health”, in New York Times:

     The remaining sprains are eversion injuries, in which the foot turns out and the ankle turns in.

Related terms

• evert

Translations

an act of turning inside out

• Bulgarian: обръщане наопаки n (obrǎštane naopaki)
• Icelandic: úthverfing f, umsnúningur m

the state of being turned inside out

• Icelandic: úthverfing f, umsnúningur m

medicine: the condition of being turned outward

• Icelandic: úthverfing f

Anagrams

• renovise, virenose