vt, in*volved  in*volv*ing  :  to affect with a disease or condition  :  include in an area of damage, trauma, or insult <all the bones of the skull were involvedin the proliferative process>  <herpes involvedthe trigeminal nerve>  <severely involvedpatients were isolated>  <lacerations involvedthe muscles>  .
 
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