How To Use Retroflex In A Sentence
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If the bending is backward, it is called _retroflexion_; if forward, _anteflexion.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
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An extreme degree of anteversion or anteflexion, or retroversion or retroflexion, may interfere with impregnation, as the spermatozoa may find it difficult or impossible to reach the opening of the womb -- the external os.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life
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The objective of the study was to evaluate the utility of retroflexion for removal of large sessile colon polyps.
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The most common forms of displacement resulting from self-abuse, are retroflexion and retroversion, which are usually accompanied by congestion and enlargement of the womb, catarrh of the lining membrane of the womb, and relaxation of the vagina.
Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.
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What struck me is the retroflexed ‘d’ at the end of the first clip.
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Rational Review
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It may also have been further retroflexed due to alveolar stops.
Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan
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A similar abundance prevails in respect of all the four retroflex and cacuminal plosives, ` t ’, ` th ’, ` d', ` dh ’, as well as the retroflex plosive nasal, ` n ’, whose sounds are identical with those of the five dental, alveolar and nasal plosives, ` t ’, ` th ’, ` d', ` dh’ and ` n ’, that follow in the Devanagari alphabet.
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So ‘softening’ might be removal of retroflexion.
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It might have been a trilled sound as in modern Scots, but from the descriptions at the time I think it's more likely to have been a retroflex one - that is, one where the tip of the tongue is curled back, as in a lot of American and West Country speech.
Archive 2007-01-01
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There are conversions between highlight apical intermediary tone , apical make tongue sideapical retroflex and so on.
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The increasing use of retroflexion proctoscopy to evaluate the distal rectum is not without complications.
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They are not just meant to retroflex your knees, extend your legs, and make you callipygous.
Orphans of Chaos
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Full frontal constraint may flatten the face, limit mandibular growth, and result in a retroflexed head with a prominent occipital shelf.
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I just wrote a paragraph in my term paper, regarding "interesting" observations concerning the interchangeable usage of the voiced alveolar trill and the voiced retroflex approximant in Yapese.
Archive 2004-05-01
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Sicilian, phonetically characterized by the presence of retroflexed consonants, not only keeps all the vowel sounds clear and loud but introduces an epenthetic [i] in some consonantic groups.
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Also, I think that the retroflex quality is not the primary feature in rhoticity.
On /r/s and ofs
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Also, I think that the retroflex quality is not the primary feature in rhoticity.
On /r/s and ofs
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Waymamba taught us the sounds of Yolngu Matha, the retroflexed T that sounds like an ‘rt’, like watu, dog, the elusive ‘ng’ that emerges from the back of the throat, heard in the word Yolngu, and the glottal stop that sounds like a hiccup.
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An extreme degree of anteversion or anteflexion, or retroversion or retroflexion, may interfere with impregnation, as the spermatozoa may find it difficult or impossible to reach the opening of the womb -- the external os.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life
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-- Anteversion, anteflexion, retroversion, retroflexion, and the various other forms of displacement, are due to very much the same causes as those which give rise to prolapsus, and the symptoms are also very much the same.
Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.
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An extreme degree of anteversion or anteflexion, or retroversion or retroflexion, may interfere with impregnation, as the spermatozoa may find it difficult or impossible to reach the opening of the womb -- the external os.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life
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It may also have been further retroflexed due to alveolar dental stops.
What are Etruscans doing with those eggs?
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The next seven consonants are 'retroflex': the tongue curls back to the palate (front part of the roof of the mouth), making a hard sound ṭh aspirated version of the above as in 'dry', but harder
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The retroflex [r] and the clear [l] sound the same to the Japonese; i.e. rice and lice -- Yew!
Top 5 Most Outrageous Japanese Female Celebrity Nicknames
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Her words sound a little retroflex , they are quite pleasant to hear.
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The retroflexed view confirmed a loose wrap with prolapsing gastric folds.
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A. retroflexus ( "pigweed") is one of the world's worst weeds.
2 The Plants
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One is the refusal to use the IPA -- to the point that sometimes different transcriptions are used for different languages, so that an underdot can mean an ejective, a retroflex, a pharyngealized consonant and who knows what else.
How NOT to reconstruct a protolanguage
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Even if endoscopic examination includes retroflexion of the scope to inspect the anal canal, optimal visualization is obtained with the Ive's slotted anoscope.
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Scarring from adhesions as a result of endometriosis or fibroids can also cause the uterus to shift to a tilted or retroflexed state.
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Indian accents can be characterized by the fact that speakers retroflex their consonants
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It is phonologically impossible since Tamil has no [z] sound and since the retroflex approximant sometimes romanized < z > cannot appear in initial position.
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A coarse cosmopolitan weed(Amaranthus retroflexus) having hairy leaves and stout, terminal panicles with dense, lateral spikes of green flowers.
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When you write an English word in Urdu, all the t's and d's are retroflex - indicated by a little sign over the top called ‘toy’ - it looks like the flat sign in western musical notation.
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The retroflexed view in the stomach demonstrated findings consistent with a slipped fundoplication.
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The phonetic character of the /r/ is retroflex, i.e. the tip of the tongue is curled back towards the palate.
On /r/s and ofs
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Her cacuminal speech prods the back of my neck, my face turned to a corner, wedged, stiff, stuck fast, lodged within the confines of her retroflexed monologue - this verse is addressed to both myself and the boy (who keeps slapping blackboard grime like muddy shoes).
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Examination showed an enlarged and retroflexed uterus and anesthesia of vagina.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women
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Like alveolar consonants replaced by retroflex consonants e.g walked - walk.
English as Intellectual Make Up for Indians « Articles « Literacy News
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In words like mirror we find two retroflexed /r/s occurring in quick succession.
Archive 2008-06-01
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This essay is a statistical and inductive analysis over the unstressed words and"r"-retroflexed words as listed in the"Outline of Chinese Vocabulary Classes".
