"Lordosis" is a word in ENGLISH

Curvature inwards; hookedness.

Having to opposite curvatures, that is, curved longitudinally in one direction and transversely in the opposite direction, as the surface …

Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; -- said of a lens.

The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to …

A curvature in the shape of a circular arc or an arch; as, the colored arc (the rainbow); the arc …

Any curvature in the form of an arch; as, the arch of the aorta.

Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.

A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea.

To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.

A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.

The act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved; a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as …

The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a …

Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; fowing; -- said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, …

Having alternate curvatures in opposite directions; bent in a zigzag manner.

That branch of applied mathematics which determines, by means of observations and measurements, the figures and areas of large portions …

The state of being bent or curved; curvature.

A certain conic section supposed to be drawn in the tangent plane to any surface, and used to determine the …

Even; flat; having no part higher than another; having, or conforming to, the curvature which belongs to the undisturbed liquid …

An instrument devised by Helmholtz for measuring the size of a reflected image on the convex surface of the cornea …

To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2.