Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A turning or tilting backward.
- noun The state of being turned or tilted back.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tilting or turning backward: as, retroversion of vertebral processes: especially applied in gynecology to an inclination of the uterus backward with the retention of its normal curve: opposed to anteversion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine The state or condition of being
retroverted .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun returning to a former state
- noun translation back into the original language
- noun a turning or tilting backward of an organ or body part
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Analloiotos, 'unchangeable' appears in Basil and is paralleled in the Antiochene creed of 325 (with the usual caution about Greek retroversion).
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An extreme degree of anteversion or anteflexion, or retroversion or retroflexion, may interfere with impregnation, as the spermatozoa may find it difficult or impossible to reach the opening of the womb -- the external os.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson
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It seemed to me that was just as much of a retroversion of the theory of what is right in our Government as there could possibly be.
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For, as the action of writing is performed by bending the thumb forward, the retroversion or bending back of that joint did not unaptly point to the opposite of that action, implying that it was the will of the audience that the author should _write no more: _ a much more significant, as well as more humane, way of expressing-that desire, than our custom of hissing, which is altogether senseless and indefensible.
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Constipation may be caused by retroversion of the uterus.
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There was constant and imperious excitement, with the sense of vibration, tension, pressure, dilatation and tickling, accompanied, it may be, by some ovarian congestion, for she felt that on the left side there was a network of sexual nerves, and retroversion of the uterus was detected some years later.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899
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ANTEVERSION: -- Persons suffering from anteversion or retroversion should sleep without pillows under the head, and lie flat upon the back; they should sit with the feet as high as convenient and avoid high seats which hinder the feet from touching the floor.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
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There are three kinds of displacements: anteversion, retroversion, and prolapsus.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
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(Exercises for anteversion and retroversion supplied by a successful teacher of such work.)
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
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The most common forms of displacement resulting from self-abuse, are retroflexion and retroversion, which are usually accompanied by congestion and enlargement of the womb, catarrh of the lining membrane of the womb, and relaxation of the vagina.
Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life. 1877
hernesheir commented on the word retroversion
Cf. anteversion.
November 19, 2010