curvation

In some species of Artabotrys, indeed, fasciation and curvation of the inflorescence are common.

It was while thus "in position"—not its master, but its slave—that curvation of the spine of society, which produces so much paralysis and death—that, when he came to Princes Street, he felt himself constrained and able to walk up South St. Andrew Street, direct to the door of the Royal Bank.

Curvature -- N. curvature, curvity†, curvation†; incurvature†, incurvity†; incurvation†; bend; flexure, flexion, flection†; conflexure†; crook, hook, bought, bending; deflection, deflexion†; inflection, inflexion†; concameration†; arcuation†, devexity†, turn, deviation, detour, sweep; curl, curling; bough; recurvity†, recurvation†; sinuosity &c.