"countercurve" meaning in English

See countercurve in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: countercurves [plural]
Etymology: counter- + curve Etymology templates: {{pre|en|counter|curve}} counter- + curve Head templates: {{en-noun}} countercurve (plural countercurves)
  1. A curve running in the opposite direction to another curve.
    Sense id: en-countercurve-en-noun-IqXxT5lD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with counter-

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2005, Marek Szpalski, Robert Gunzburg, editors, The Failed Spine, Lippincott Williams & Willkins, page 47",
          "text": "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.",
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