countercurve

English

Alternative forms

counter curve

Etymology

counter- +‎ curve

Noun

countercurve (plural countercurves)

1. A curve running in the opposite direction to another curve.
   • 2006 May, Yoga Journal‎^[1]:

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

   • 2005, Marek Szpalski, Robert Gunzburg, editors, The Failed Spine‎^[2], Lippincott Williams & Willkins, page 47:

     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.