What's the difference between backwards and retroflex?

Backwards


Definition:

  • (adv.) With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward.
  • (adv.) Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward.
  • (adv.) On the back, or with the back downward.
  • (adv.) Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.
  • (adv.) By way of reflection; reflexively.
  • (adv.) From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.
  • (adv.) In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This movement generates forward and backward shearing force in the stagnation region as the separated flow migrates back and forth.
  • (2) The estimated forward (k) and backward (1) rate constants are: 2.45 x I05 M-1 s- and 0.23 x 103 s-1, respectively, for k and I for the case when the drug is trapped by both activation and inactivation gates, and 3.58 x 105 M-l s-l and 4.15 x 10-3 S-l for the case when the drug is not trapped.
  • (3) On physical examination the patients complained of pain on both passive flexion and internal rotation of the hip, and when the thigh was pushed backwards at 90 degrees of flexion.
  • (4) The effects of maxillary protracting bow appliance were the maxillary forward movement associated with counter-clockwise rotation of the nasal floor and the mandibular backward movement associated with clockwise rotation.
  • (5) Treadmill acceleration impulses were backwards or forwards directed, or their direction was inverted after 30 ms. Backwards directed impulses were followed by gastrocnemius and forwards directed ones by tibialis anterior EMG responses (latency 65-75 ms) whose duration depended on impulse duration.
  • (6) For all my enthusiasm, my family must have felt we were taking a step backwards in lifestyle.
  • (7) The response was composed of an isometric phase, during which the body weight was shifted from the stimulated limb to the opposite forelimb while the stimulated limb was gently pushed backwards, and a movement phase during which the stimulated paw actually accomplished the placing reaction.
  • (8) They’ve actually gone backwards,” Cobbett said.
  • (9) Older subjects were found to be significantly more susceptible to the backward masking effect over longer delays between the target and masking stimuli.
  • (10) Those with unstable Dunlop test responses were much more likely to be backward or low normal readers than children with stable responses.
  • (11) The effects of interval duration as well as of repeated presentation of paired stimuli on backward connections show that these factors are of considerable importance for their formation.
  • (12) They need not tilt the head backwards during inhalation or hold their breath afterwards.
  • (13) Unsurprisingly, one of the three lonely references at the end of O'Reilly's essay is to a 2012 speech entitled " Regulation: Looking Backward, Looking Forward" by Cass Sunstein , the prominent American legal scholar who is the chief theorist of the nudging state.
  • (14) Results for the backward-counting condition duplicate, for the retention intervals used, the shape of the classic Peterson and Peterson forgetting curve but indicate little loss of memory in either the rehearsal or alpha conditions.
  • (15) But we won't be taking a backwards step, not this week, not this year, or next year or ever."
  • (16) Twenty-four male graduate volunteers were administered a battery of psychological tests--critical flicker fusion (CFF; alternate and simultaneous), reaction time (simple and choice), memory (forward and backward), and associative recall--to ascertain their performance capability during the different times of day.
  • (17) We implemented a parallel version of the backward error propagation neural network training algorithm in the widely portable parallel programming language C-Linda.
  • (18) The target patterns varied in the number of line segments that they contained and were presented in the presence or absence of a backward-masking stimulus.
  • (19) We self-censure because it would put us all back, it would diminish who we are.” Of course she’s a feminist: “That just means believing that women can do everything men can but backwards in heels with a cherry on top.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Britain needs to talk about the R-word: racism It is also a wakeup call to those who recognise racism only when it is played out like a scene from Django Unchained , those who think that racism has to be some vulgar incident perpetrated only by the backward, ignorant and poorly educated, those who believe that racism has to be an act, rather than a complicated and intangible framework that sets up obstacles.

Retroflex


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Retroflexed

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bony anomalies encountered in the 'no neck' form of Klippel-Feil syndrome (KFS) are a wide, short, fused, bifid, retroflexed spinal canal; craniolacunia, cranium bifidum, and acrania.
  • (2) 8 of the 50 had a retroflexed uterus and 2 of those were displacement cases, suggesting that anomaly of position could be a predisposition for ectopia.
  • (3) Each subject, by means of computerized stabilometric platform, has been submitted to the sensitized test with head retroflexed.
  • (4) Most perforations occur at the time of insertion; insertion during the early postpartum period or during the period of lactational amenorrhoea, or in the case of an undiagnosed pregnant uterus or an acutely anteflexed or retroflexed uterus can be the cause.
  • (5) The head is not retroflexed, and the tongue is not supported by an endoscope as in direct laryngoscopy.
  • (6) During a period of 18 months with a history of chronic pelvic pain symptomatology (severe dysmenorrhea, severe dyspareunia, extramenstrual pain) retroverted or retroflexed uterus, and infertility were subjected to laparoscopy for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes as well.
  • (7) Prior ultrasound of this area was significantly limited by bowel loops anterior to the retroflexed uterine body and cervix, which were displaced cephalad out of the pelvic inlet and were not seen.
  • (8) This tracing technique labeled, in a Golgi-like manner, the neurons which initiate the fasciculi retroflexes and revealed details of their morphological pattern.
  • (9) This case report presents a full-term pregnancy in a retroflexed uterus.
  • (10) An insufficiently full bladder, a retroflex uterus, echoes caused by the intestine, and obesity made the ultrasonic scanning more difficult.
  • (11) The features of interest are sonorant, syllabic, consonantal, high, back, front, and retroflex.
  • (12) We describe a fetus with hydrocephalus and the cranial and cervical findings of iniencephaly (enlarged foramen magnum, fusion of the upper cervical vertebrae, and a retroflexed, webbed neck) who had an unusual palatal abnormality ("palatal anteversion").
  • (13) Finally, the retroflexed uterine position does not appear to increase the risk of abnormal outcomes.
  • (14) Two cases of retroflexed holoprosencephaly are presented.
  • (15) A tortuous retroflexed innominate artery can simulate a right apical mass.
  • (16) Secondary dysmenorrhea means pathological organic alterations of the genital tract: uterus myomatosus, endometrial polyps, endometriosis, and retroflexed uterus.
  • (17) The fetus remained fixed in the same position with the head retroflexed during each consecutive exam.
  • (18) Examination revealed a retroflexed uterus with the cervical opening pointing toward the anterior abdominal wall.
  • (19) The GIF-P2-prototype with four-way tip control and ability to retroflex 180 degree up, 60 degree down, and 100 degree right and left was superior to GIF-P1 and CF-P-prototype for visualization of the entire esophagus, stomach, duodenal bulb, and postbulbar area in patients less than 10 years old.
  • (20) The common phenotypic features of this syndrome include growth failure and mental or developmental retardation, hypotonia, persistent lanugo, distorted head, congenital glaucoma, short and upturned nose, prominent maxilla, micrognathia, short, webbed neck, short limbs, retroflexed third and fourth toes, cutaneous syndactyly of the second, third and fourth toes, and elevated galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase activity in the red blood cells.