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invagination
(redirected from basilar invagination)

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invagination [in‚vaj·ə′nā·shən]
(embryology)
The enfolding of a part of the wall of the blastula to form a gastrula.
(physiology)
The act of ensheathing or becoming ensheathed.
The process of burrowing or enfolding to form a hollow space within a previously solid structure, as the invagination of the nasal mucosa within a bone of the skull to form a paranasal sinus.


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A case of Collet-Sicard syndrome associated with traumatic atlas fractures and congenital basilar invagination.
 
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