curve

A bend; in graphic delineations, the general course of a line formed by a number of straight lines extending between adjacent registry points. c. of Cams. The arc of an imaginary parabola having one focus at the symphysis pubis and extending in the median line of the pelvis in women, from the plane of the inlet to that of the outlet; corresponding roughly with the pelvic axis. dental c. See under dfaital. fever c. See temperature c. graphic c. The course formed on a graphic chart by a line made up of a number of straight lines pa ing between the contiguous points registered; also the undulating line registered by the needle of the sphygmograph or other like instrument on a moving surface, temperature c, thermometric c. A graphic c. exhibiting the variations of the temperature during a given period. [Lat., curvus, a bend, a flexure.]