Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Tipped forward; exhibiting anteversion: said of the uterus.

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  • adjective Turned or tipped forward.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of antevert.

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Examples

  • The uterus was small, anteflexed and anteverted, and nontender, and the adnexa were nonpalpable and nontender.

    Salem Falls JODI PICOULT 2001

  • This pressure lasts only the first two or three months, because after that the growing womb lifts itself out of the pelvis, rising into the abdominal cavity; it is no longer anteverted and the pressure on the bladder is relieved.

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  • The shortened anteverted femoral neck. contracture are true except that: d.

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  • The shortened anteverted femoral neck. contracture are true except that: d.

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