Plication can refer to the state of being folded or to a fold itself. With roots in Latin and French, the word appears in fields as diverse as anatomy and botany. If you're describing a surgery that creates folds in tissue or observing the natural folds in a leaf, plication gives you a precise term for those creases and contours.
Example: The origami crane's wings were defined by a series of precise plications.
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