Intussusception

Invagination is a term used in biology and medicine. It is used to describe the invagination of one component into another. In detail, intussusception describes:

• in cell biology
  • Inversion of the cell membrane (example phagocytosis )
  • Invagination of the nuclear membrane
• a segment of gastrulation , part of embryonic development
• the telescopic invagination of individual intestinal sections into one another, see intussusception (medicine)
• Inversion of the ocular vesicles to the eye cup in the embryonic development of vertebrates
• In paediatrics (synonym: intussusception), a pathological invagination of one section of the intestine into another.

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.