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countercurve en · NOUN

Etymology

From counter- + curve.

Meanings

1. A curve running in the opposite direction to another curve.
   • The major curve is in the thoracic region, with an equal countercurve in the lumbar region. 2006 May, Yoga Journal:
   • A third option of creating a postoperative scoliosis, or rather a postoperative decompensation of a curve, has been observed in patients who had a correction of an idiopathic thoracic scoliosis in their adolescence and the nontreated lumbar compensatory counter-curve or the countercurve in a double curve progressed to a scoliosis on the base of a progressive segmental degeneration. 2005, Marek Szpalski, Robert Gunzburg, editors, The Failed Spine, Lippincott Williams & Willkins, page 47:

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