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From "engines of our ingenuity" episode 1775: "The old Britannica lovingly tells us that writing on both sides of a page is called opisthography.
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While looking in my dictionary for "opisthography" I noticed medical word "opisthotonus". I can't remember the cause of it, but it means the patient's body is arched backwards.
Also "opisthognathous" = having a receding jaw. Characteristic of some fishes. There used to be a comic strip character "Andy Gump" whose distinctive physiognomic feature was a markedly undersized lower jaw. Other facial faults are a retrorse or less so retroussé proboscis.
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