Definition of Retroflexed

1. Adjective. Bent or curved backward.

Exact synonyms: Retroflex
Similar to: Backward

Definition of Retroflexed

1. Adjective. Bent in a posterior (backwards) direction, as the uterus ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Retroflexed

1. Bent backward or posteriorly. Synonym: retroflected. Origin: retro-+ L. Flecto, pp. Flexus, to bend (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Retroflexed

retrofits
retrofitted
retrofitter
retrofitters
retrofitting
retroflect
retroflected
retroflecting
retroflection
retroflections
retroflector
retroflectors
retroflects
retroflex
retroflex fasciculus
retroflexed (current term)
retroflexes
retroflexion
retroflexions
retrofracted
retrofuturism
retrofuturistic
retrogamer
retrogamers
retrogaming
retrogene
retrogenes
retrognathia

Literary usage of Retroflexed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1911)
"PREGNANCY in a retroflexed adherent uterus is an occurrence rarely observed, ... While in the retroflexed gravid uterus without adhesions nature will often ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"... IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, PHILADELPHIA A New Method of Replacing the retroflexed Uterus.—GOLDBERG (Zeit. f. Gyn., 1910, xxxiv, 1645) describes ..."

3. A Practical treatise on the diseases of women by Theodore Gaillard Thomas (1875)
"128, will be found to answer a good purpose. Fig. 128. Hurd's pessary. Fig. 129. retroflexed uterus in ..."

4. Transactions of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland by Academy of Medicine in Ireland (1890)
"An irreducible retroflexed or retroverted uterus is one, we know, which cannot ... Retroverted or retroflexed uteri become irreducible from the presence of ..."

5. The Clinical Journal (1906)
"The symptoms that a retroverted and retroflexed congested uterus can give rise to are ... The completely retroverted and retroflexed uterus (acquired). ..."

6. Obstetrics, Normal and Operative by George Peaslee Shears (1916)
"retroflexed uterus, partially replaced at end of pregnancy. not only occupies more space anteroposteriorly, but catches above the symphysis in front, ..."

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