reflexuren.

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man viii. f. 100 The thinne Membran..made in reflexures, should nourish the substaunce of the brayne.

1804 C. Bell Anat. Human Body IV. iii. ii. 227 The internal, or villous, coat [of the vagina], is a reflexure of the delicate covering of the external parts.

1930 Trans. Amer. Microsc. Soc. 49 179 Those [eggs] nearest the reflexure are usually from four to eight-celled.

1972 Jrnl. Mammalogy 53 886 A sphincter at the reflexure was described by Owen (1838) and confirmed by Meinertz (1956).

1840 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 29 336 Now, supposing these functions to completely resoluble into factors, the curve given by them will have as many points of reflexure (or of straightness) as the function has dimensions.

1875 Proc. Physical Soc. 2 56 The point of reflexure (that is, the lowest point of each tracing) shows the temperature at which the particular cryohydrate is formed.

1884 R. H. Thurston Materials of Engin. III. viii. 303 Repeated flexure and reflexure through an angle of 67½ degrees was found best adapted to bring out the quality of the metal.

1984 Jrnl. Paleontol. 58 467 Both projections and reflexures define a consistent polarity for the ridges at any one locality.

1987 Tectonophysics 140 121 Post-rupture plate unflexing leading to reflexure provides a mechanism for foreland basin formation.