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This paper demonstrates numerically that these turns are located close to the intersection of two curves in the parameter space that locate nontransversal intersections of invariant manifolds of the three dimensional vector field. The relevant invariant manifolds in phase space are visualized. A geometrical model inspired by the numerical studies displays the sharp turns of the homoclinic bifurcations curves and yields quantitative predictions about multipulse and homoclinic orbits and periodic orbits that have not been resolved in the FitzHugh\u2013Nagumo model. 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