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Incurvation

noun
1.
A shape that curves or bends inward.  Synonyms: concave shape, concavity, incurvature.
2.
The action of creating a curved shape.





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"Incurvation" Quotes from Famous Books



... Coxa Vara—Incurvation of the Neck of the Femur.—There may be a simple adduction bend of the neck, the head sinking to, or even below, the level of the great trochanter (Fig. 132); or this may be combined with a curve of the neck, of which the convexity is upwards and ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles
... maldevelopment. Caddy mentions a youth of eighteen who had congenital torsion of the penis with out hypospadias or epispadias. There was a complete half-turn to the left, so that the slit-like urinary meatus was reversed and the frenum was above. Among the older writers who describe incurvation or torsion of the penis are Arantius, the Ephemerides, Haenel, Petit, ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould


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