involution


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Synonyms for involution

reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)

a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction

marked by elaborately complex detail

the act of sharing in the activities of a group

the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power

the action of enfolding something

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Here [G.sub.[theta]] and [H.sub.[theta]] are the Cartan motion groups of G and H, respectively, defined by using a Cartan involution [theta] of G such that [theta](H) = H as follows:
During the postpartum period, the involution of the uterus, with the resumption of ovulation, become essential to achieve intervals between ideal deliveries, so the earlier matrix starts the postpartum uterine cyclicity and involution, the greater will be the fertility achieved during the breeding period (7).
It can be assumed that breeding in foal heat could be effective in reducing uterine involution, inflammatory reactions related to breeding and embryonic death.
The portal vein normally forms between weeks 5 and 10 of embryogenesis by selective involution of the peri-intestinal vitelline venous loop.
The bacterial flora of the genital tracts does not always lead to pathological conditions, because uterine involution, elimination of the bacterial contamination and restoration of the ovarian functions occur at postpartum period to prepare the genital tracts for a new pregnancy [10, 19, 27], which takes about 17-30 days (d) [10, 13, 22, 27].
The other nominees on the 2018 list are Nonyelum Ekwempu (Nigeria) for American Dream, published in Red Rock Review (2016) and republished in The Anthem, Stacy Hardy (South Africa) for Involution published in Migrations: New Short Fiction from Africa, and Olufunke Ogundimu (Nigeria) for The Armed Letter Writers published in The African Literary Hustle in 2017.Last year, the prize was awarded to Sudanese poet Bushra al-Fadil for The Story of the Girl Whose Birds Flew Away.This is the second year the prize has shortlisted three Nigerians.
They are characterized by two distinct phases: proliferation and involution. (1) The proliferation phase is characterized by rapid growth for the first 6 to 9 months of life followed by involution over 3 to 7 years.
While presently in an office-based setting, back in my inpatient practice days I would order oxycodone plus acetaminophen for 1 to 2 days postoperative cesarean delivery, and only 1 day after normal spontaneous delivery if the patient had a large perineal repair or multiparous involution pain.
The pathogenesis is the lack of intestinal involution by the ninth gestational week.
Due to intrauterine bacterial contamination and repair of endometrium following parturition, uterine inflammation is a normal and necessary component of post-partum uterine involution process (Ahmadi et al., 2006).
The equation contains the usual time derivative and an involution with respect to the spatial variable.
Forty-three years after Melvin Museles, MD, and I reported the spontaneous involution of infantile hemangioma, Dr.
Later, in [18], Stong solved the case F = R[P.sub.n] with n even and k = 1, showing that in this case (M, [PHI]) is equivariantly cobordant to the involution (R[P.sub.n] x R[P.sub.n], twist), where twist maps (x,y) into (y,x).
[1] IH have a typical proliferative phase followed by a slow phase of involution. Most IHs are apparent by the first month of life, rapidly grow till 5 months of age and undergo a slow and variable regression for months to years.