Usually means: Flowing in opposite directions simultaneously.
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  1. countercurrently: Merriam-Webster
  2. countercurrently: Dictionary.com
  3. countercurrently: TheFreeDictionary.com
  4. countercurrently: Wiktionary

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  1. countercurrently: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. countercurrently: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. countercurrently: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (countercurrently)

▸ adverb:  In a countercurrent manner.

Similar:
countercurrentwise, countercyclically, transcurrently, intercurrently, decurrently, counteractively, currentwise, concurrently, equicontinuously, antimonotonically, more...

Opposite:
concurrently, in same direction, parallel

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Similar:
countercurrentwise, countercyclically, transcurrently, intercurrently, decurrently, counteractively, currentwise, concurrently, equicontinuously, antimonotonically, more...

Opposite:
concurrently, in same direction, parallel



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