evaginate

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēvāgīnātus, perfect passive participle of ēvāgīnō (“to unsheath”); see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

verb

  1. To evert a bodily organ inside surface to outside.
  2. To cause (a bodily organ or part) to turn inside out.

adj

  1. Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated.“an evaginate membrane”