" flexure "

[Noun]  | "flex*ure" | \ ˈflek-shər \

1: the quality or state of being flexed : flexion

2: turn, bend, fold

Origin: 1592 ;

 Borrowed from Latin flexūra "act of bending, bend, curve," from flexus (past participle of flectere "to cause to move in a different direction, bend, curve," of uncertain origin) + -ūra {see: |-ure|-ure};

[Noun]  | "sigmoid colon" 

1: the contracted and crooked part of the colon immediately above the rectum —called also sigmoid flexure

Origin: 1896 ;

[Noun]  | "flexure"