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detortion, -sion|dɪˈtɔːʃən|
[n. of action f. L. dētorquēre, ppl. stem dētort- and dētors-: see detort. Cf. OF. detorsion.]
†1. The action of ‘detorting’; twisting, wresting, perversion of meaning. Now rare or Obs.
1598Ord. for Prayer in Liturg. Serv. Q. Eliz. (1847) 681 By a blasphemous application or rather detortion of that excellent Scripture Unum necessarium, One thing is necessary. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 69 A depraving adulteration, a sacrilegious detorsion. 1728Earbery tr. Burnet's St. Dead. I. 135 A rash and bold Detorsion of the sacred Scriptures.
2. In physical sense: Distortion. Now rare or Obs.
1853Kane Grinnell Exped. (1856) 512 Refracted detortion very great.
3. Biol. (Spelt detorsion.) Evolutionary reversion to a primitive linear anatomical organization in a species of organisms, esp. gastropod molluscs, whose intermediate ancestors underwent torsion through 180°.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXX. 796/2 Not an absence of torsion, but an actual detorsion of the visceral commissure. 1930G. R. de Beer Embryol. & Evol. vii. 54 That intermediate stages are not a priori impossible is proved by the fact that intermediate stages in detorsion in later Gastropods are not wanting. 1968R. D. Purchon Biol. Mollusca i. 25 The penis is situated on the right side of the head..and has evidently been ‘left behind’ when the mantle cavity retreated posteriorly during the process of detorsion. |