retroflexion

The retroflexion pushed us up against our safety harnesses.

Actual retroflexion may occur as well and both occur as variations of the same sound.

This causes extreme retroflexion, or backward bending, of the head in a "star-gazing" fashion.

Three extreme cases of neutralisation: nasality, retroflexion and lip-rounding in Naxi.

Some words that are in dictionaries: Retroflexion or retroflection is the closest existing word we could use in this circumstance.

Rare post-operative complications include hydrocephalus and brain stem compression by retroflexion of odontoid.

It is a small, leftwards-facing hook joined to the bottom-right side of a letter, and is distinguished from various other hooks indicating retroflexion, etc.

Rhotacism and retroflexion', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 17 (1954), p. 111-9.

Old Chinese was known to contain additionally medials such as /r/ and/or /l/, which yielded retroflexion in Middle Chinese and today's Mandarin Chinese.

Even though KFS does experience malformed cervical vertebra due to failure of segmentation during early fetal development, there is not retroflexion of the head as seen in iniencephaly.

For each sound, think of the disposition of the organs of articulation required to make it, i.e. tongue and lip position, presence or absence of aspiration, retroflexion, fronting or backing, etc.

Since many of the characteristics of iniencephaly, such as congenital retroflexion of the spine and fusion of the cervical vertebrae, are shared with other disorders, key differences are important to note.

Those afflicted with the disorder all share 3 common characteristics: a defect to the occipital bone, spina bifida of the cervical vertebrae and retroflexion (backward bending) of the head on the cervical spine.

Alveolar or retroflex approximant (as in most accents of English-with minute differences): The front part of the tongue approaches the upper gum, or the tongue-tip is curled back towards the roof of the mouth ("retroflexion").

The loss of the reconstructed OC medial "r", or the r-infix in Sagart's reconstruction, had not only influenced vowel quality in Middle Chinese, but had also caused the retroflexion of coronal consonants.

There is a clear predominance of retroflexion in the Northwest (Nuristani, Dardic, Khotanese Saka, Burushaski), involving affricates, sibilants and even vowels (in Kalasha), compared to other parts of the subcontinent.

However, makes a distinction between the vowels of American English (which he calls "rhotacized") and vowels with "retroflexion" such as those that appear in Badaga; , on the other hand, labels both as r-colored and notes that both have a lowered third formant.

However Tikkanen states that "in view of the strictly areal implications of retroflexion and the occurrence of retroflexes in many early loanwords, it is hardly likely that Indo-Aryan retroflexion arose in a region that did not have a substratum with retroflexes."