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Posted By: wwh opisthography - 02/28/03 11:00 PM
From "engines of our ingenuity" episode 1775:
"The old Britannica lovingly tells us that writing on both sides of a page is called opisthography.

Posted By: wwh Re: opisthography - 02/28/03 11:14 PM
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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