Usually means: Turning or bending sharply backward.
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  1. retroflection: Merriam-Webster
  2. retroflection: Collins English Dictionary
  3. retroflection: Vocabulary.com
  4. retroflection: Wordnik
  5. retroflection: Wiktionary
  6. retroflection: Dictionary.com
  7. Retroflection: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. retroflection: Rhymezone
  9. retroflection: FreeDictionary.org
  10. retroflection: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. retroflection: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. retroflection: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. retroflection: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (retroflection)

▸ noun:  The condition of being bent backwards.

Similar:
retroflexion, returnment, result, retraite, recumbency, repedation, recubation, relapsing, retro, rereward, more...

Opposite:
protraction, extension, projection

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Similar:
retroflexion, returnment, result, retraite, recumbency, repedation, recubation, relapsing, retro, rereward, more...

Opposite:
protraction, extension, projection



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