basculation
basculation noun: the replacement of a retroverted uterus by swinging it into its place.
Noun (1)
basculation (uncountable)
- The replacement of a retroverted uterus by swinging it into its place.
- This twofold movement upon the centre, - this basculation, - has succeeded in cases where the elevation, singly, has been unsuccessful.1834, Gillain Boivin, A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Uterus and Its Appendages
Noun (2)
basculation (plural basculations)
- The tilting of a geological layer.
- And during the Middle and Upper Carboniferous the basculation of the palaeozoic deposits was produced forming nowadays a monoclinal system in the northern border of the Tinduf depression […]1959, Notes on the Geological Literature of Spanish Sahara
- This elongated distribution is unlikely to have been produced by any tectonic cause, either continental drift or local basculations.2006, Mabel Mena, “Paleomagnetism, rock-magnetism and geochemical aspects of early Cretaceous basalts of the Paraná Magmatic Province, Misiones, Argentina”, in Earth, Planets and Space, volume 58...
Forms of basculation
| plural | basculations |
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Origin of basculation
From bascule + -ation.
From Spanish basculación.
Questions about basculation
- What does basculation mean?
- Basculation means the replacement of a retroverted uterus by swinging it into its place.
- What part of speech is basculation?
- Basculation is a noun.
- What is the plural of basculation?
- The plural of basculation is basculations.
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