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n. - A shape that curves or bends inward.

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Usage examples (9)
  • The incurvature of the legs proves that this young man must have walked with bent knees like the old men of our own day.
  • The neck on your maquette looks much more plausible than those shown on many other reconstructions, especially with the small rolls of flab at the incurvature.
  • An unusual excurvature or incurvature of the spine.
  • At this stage cancer starts moving the lymph nodes of the limb incurvature of aforementioned side.
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