See Also: diastrophism(medicine)
diastrophism(dictionary)
diastrophism(encyclopedia)

diastrophism (iou)



diastrophism noun. L19.
[from Greek diastrophe distortion, dislocation, ult. formed as DIA-1 + strephein to turn: see -ISM.]
The disturbances and dislocations of the earth's crust which have produced the major inequalities of its surface.
diastrophic adjective L19.