  The effect of strong anisotropy on the Fermi line of a system of correlated
electrons is studied in two space dimensions, using renormalization group
techniques. Inflection points change the scaling exponents of the couplings,
enhancing the instabilities of the system. They increase the critical dimension
for non Fermi liquid behavior, from 1 to 3/2. Assuming that, in the absence of
nesting, the dominant instability is towards a superconducting ground state,
simple rules to discern between d-wave and extended s-wave symmetry of the
order parameter are given.
