regression, regress, reversion, retrogression, retroversion
(noun) returning to a former state
retroversion
(noun) translation back into the original language; “the teacher translated Latin texts into English which he gave to his students for retroversion”
retroversion, retroflection, retroflexion
(noun) a turning or tilting backward of an organ or body part; “retroversion of the uterus”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
retroversion (countable and uncountable, plural retroversions)
A turning or falling back.
(medicine) The state or condition of being retroverted.
Antonym: anteversion
Source: Wiktionary
Re`tro*ver"sion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. rétroversion. See Retrovert.]
Definition: A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus.
Note: In retroversion the bending is gradual or curved; in retroflexion it is abrupt or angular.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 February 2025
(noun) (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
