Sentence examples for eversion from inspiring English sources

After eversion, the thread separates from the nematocyst.

Prey is captured either in the sudden rush of water into the mantle cavity or by the rapid eversion of the inhalant siphon.

As an instructor at the University of Chicago from 1956 to 1958, Smale achieved notoriety by proving that there exists an eversion of the sphere (meaning, in a precise theoretical sense, that it is possible to turn a sphere inside out).

As eversion and twisting proceed, the barbs act like a drill, penetrating into (and pulling the thread into) the foreign object.

As well as flexion and extension, it can exhibit inversion (the sole of the foot faces the other leg) or eversion (the opposite movement).

Eversion of the tentacle sheath and tentacles is effected by raising the hydrostatic pressure of the body fluid.

Another family of beryciforms found near the surface is the Anomalopidae, or "strange-eyes," so-called because of a large luminous organ lying directly below the eye, which is switched on by muscular eversion, turning the inside outward (in Anomalops) or by the withdrawal of a pigmented cover (in Photoblepharon).

Eversion only occurs in the presence of the female, but before doing this the male thrusts the pencils (not yet expanded) into glandular pockets on the hind wings.

The eversion of the siphon is assisted by a horizontal septum across the mantle cavity, which is derived from the mantle and the greatly reduced ctenidium.

The human ankle performs two kinds of movement, flexion/extension and inversion/eversion, allowing two degrees of freedom.