distortĭo

ōnis, f.

id.

I. a distorting, writhing, contortion: membrorum, Cic. Tusc. 4, 13, 29; cf. id. Fin. 5, 12, 35: oris, Cels. 4, 2, 2.
Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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