While perusing the Word List at OEDILF today I came across a word I never thought I'd see. It's "evaginate." See if you can figure what it means.

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I've heard of [i]invaginate as in enclose or[/i]turn inward[/i]. Not sure about evaginate but it probably means something like the opposite. Latin vagina means 'sheath' or 'scabbard'. It's a post-Roman medical term for the part of the female anatomy.

Yes, z. In medicine evagination means to the turning inside out or protrusion of a body part or organ.