DEVIATE

An Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary · 1892 · p. 25

adj. De'vi2-at. Lat., deviatus (from de, away from, and via, a way). Fr., dev if. Turned aside from the ordinary course or direction; of a leaf, according to Mirbel, twisted upon itself so that the superior surface is not toward the sky. [B, 1 (a, 24).] [s. 542]