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inversion
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1. Or: sexual inversion , a reversal of sexual orientation, the assumption of the gender role of the opposite sex. 2. Another word, now obsolescent or obsolete, for homosexuality. This term was used by Sigmund Freud, Havelock Ellis and their followers to classify three types of homosexuality:
-- (1) absolute or total inversion;
-- (2) amphigenous or bisexual inversion;
-- (3) occasional or facultative inversion.
3. An abnormal state in which an organ is turned inside out. Inverted / tipped uterus , in the abnormal state of being upside down or inside out. Inverted nipple , a nipple that turns inward
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