"countercurve" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From counter- + curve.",
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          "ref": "2006 May, Yoga Journal:",
          "text": "The major curve is in the thoracic region, with an equal countercurve in the lumbar region.",
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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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        "A curve running in the opposite direction to another curve."
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  "etymology_text": "From counter- + curve.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        "A curve running in the opposite direction to another curve."
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