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involute

In geometry, spiral that can be thought of as being traced by a point at the end of a taut nonelastic thread being wound onto or unwound from a spool.



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3) However, the mass they described as a "venous hemangioma" is more appropriately termed a "venous malformation," especially since a hemangioma would likely have involuted completely in a patient aged 28 years.
The exhibition is an inventory of brooding melancholics from the history of Western representation, beginning with the antique: artists, saints, and ill-fated lovers as well as allegorical personifications of Melancholy itself, at the center of which sits Durer's great Melencolia I of 1514, forever fixed in place as the involuted grande dame of imagination in anguish.
56) To Bruno, on the other hand, it is not matter that is overabundant in its possibility to be informed; if anything, it is the divine potency that is infinite and which infinitely inserts new species into nat ure -- matter in involuted, complicated form, to use a Cusanian term.
 
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