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torsion
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[ˈtɔːʃn], (Noun)
Definitions:
- the action of twisting or the state of being twisted, especially of one end of an object relative to the other
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Origin
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late Middle English (as a medical term denoting colic or in the sense ‘twisting’ (especially of a loop of the intestine)): via Old French from late Latin torsio(n-), variant of tortio(n-) ‘twisting, torture’, from Latin torquere ‘to twist’
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