anteflexion

[ an-tuh-flek-shuhn ]

nounPathology.
  1. a bending forward of an organ, especially of the body of the uterus.

Origin of anteflexion

1
1855–60; ante- + Latin flexiōn- (stem of flexiō) a bending; see flexion

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