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Definition of Curvatures
1. curvature [n] - See also: curvature
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curvatures
Literary usage of Curvatures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"They lead especially to curvatures of the spine. (e) curvatures of the Spine ...
curvatures may, however, arise from diseases of the spinal column itself; ..."
2. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"Such curvatures are described briefly by the terms epinasty or ... The greater
number of these nastic curvatures are due to unknown (internal? ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1870)
"The surfaces of the organ are limited by these two curvatures. The stomach is
held in position by the lesser omentum, which extends from the transverse ..."
4. Hand-book of Medical and Orthopedic Gymnastics by Anders Gustaf Wide (1902)
"SPINAL curvatures Spinal curvatures are reasonably included amongst the more
serious of the acquired deformities that occur in the growing ..."
5. Applied and Economic Botany for Students in Technical and Agricultural by Wilfred William Robbins (1896)
"It is evident that all such curvatures are not dependent upon processes of growth,
... Such curvatures do not come under the category of " unequal growth. ..."
6. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1888)
"The pathology of curvatures occupies close upon a hundred and twenty pages, ...
curvatures of the Spine. By NOBLE SMITH, FRCSEd. Second edition. ..."
7. Practical Text-book of Plant Physiology by Daniel Trembly Macdougal (1912)
"Geotropic curvatures in Organs in which Growth in Length has Ceased. It has been
a matter of common observation that the branches of many trees, two, ..."
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