Meaning of countercurve | Babel Free

Definitions

A curve running in the opposite direction to another curve.

Examples

“The major curve is in the thoracic region, with an equal countercurve in the lumbar region.”

“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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