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Retroversion

noun

A turning or tilting backward of an organ or body part. Synonyms: retroflection, retroflexion.

Translation back into the original language.

Returning to a former state. Synonyms: regress, regression, retrogression, reversion.

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"Retroversion" Quotes from Famous Books

... condition of the bowels, often leads to congestion of the uterus and leucorrhea, followed by uterine debility, prolapsus, excessive menstruation, anteversion or retroversion of that organ. The infrequency of the habit, incorrectly supposed to be desirable by a young woman, becomes nearly, if not quite disastrous to all her desires and bright prospects. Complications arise, and neither the ...

— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce

... things are create of four, And all again dissolved into the four, How can the four be called the primal germs Of things, more than all things themselves be thought, By retroversion, primal germs of them? For ever alternately are both begot, With interchange of nature and aspect From immemorial time. But if percase Thou think'st the frame of fire and earth, the air, The dew of water can in such wise meet As not by mingling to resign their nature, From them ...

— Of The Nature of Things • [Titus Lucretius Carus] Lucretius