Meaning & use
Retroflexion
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A backward bending or curving of an organ or body part, or, in phonetics, the curling of the tongue tip backward to produce certain speech sounds.
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The scan revealed a mild retroflexion of the uterus, a common and usually harmless variation.
Retroflexion of the tongue is characteristic of certain consonants in Hindi and other South Asian languages.
A note on using this word
From Latin retro, 'backward,' and flectere, 'to bend,' a root shared with 'flexible' and 'reflex.'
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