No description could exaggerate the tortuosity of the Linggi or the abruptness of its windings. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Chersonese and the way thither] Reference
As I expected, the depraved Whig Journalist, with characteristic mental tortuosity, has asserted that the sounds proceeded from a rookery in the adjoining wood, aided by the braying of the turf-man's donkey. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841] Reference
These are very numerous, and from 1/25000 to 1/1000 of an inch in diameter, spaces which would allow bacteria to pass through, but they are held back by the very fine openings between the spaces and by the tortuosity of the intercommunications. From Wordnik.com. [Disease and Its Causes] Reference
How little of the tortuosity of metaphysics is here; -- but what grand efficacity of super-ethics!. From Wordnik.com. [The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19] Reference
Dendrites were considered dystrophic when they showed a persistent pattern of increased tortuosity (multiple abrupt turns). From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Hrabe J, Hrabetova S, Segeth K (2004) A model of effective diffusion and tortuosity in the extracellular space of the brain. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The Lienal or Splenic Artery (a. lienalis), the largest branch of the celiac artery, is remarkable for the tortuosity of its course. From Wordnik.com. [VI. The Arteries. 5a. 2. The Abdominal Aorta] Reference
Our tents are played upon by the flickering shadows of the vast pipal-tree that rises in a laocoön tortuosity of roots out of an old well. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series] Reference
To examine changes in movement path tortuosity as a function of spatial scale, the first passage times (FPT) were calculated using custom-written software. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
In contrast, Aβ induced beading (arrowheads) and increased tortuosity (brackets), and each of these changes was markedly reduced with co-administration of LM11A-31. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
It could not be expected that while keeping a considerable distance from water, would follow its amazing tortuosity, probably surpasses that of any river on the globe. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Trail] Reference
The second advantage of anisotropic colony organization is the reduction of the tortuosity of the intercellular spaces progressively enhancing the diffusion of nutrients into the colony. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Step by step the tortured mind of Chopin arrived at a state of sickly irritability; his emotions increased to a feverish tremor, producing that involution, that tortuosity of thought, which mark his latest works. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Chopin] Reference
In veins found insufficient, 64. 9\% had focal ectasia, 57. 9\% had diffuse dilatation of greater than 6 mm, 24. 6\% had asymmetry, 22. 8\% showed tortuosity, 96. 5\% had features directly connected to varicosity, and 1. 8\% had normal morphology. From Wordnik.com. [MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians] Reference
In this South Africa study, doctors decided the treatment option for each patient based on many medical parameters including internal carotid artery (ICA) stenosis, intraluminal thrombus, ICA tortuosity, gross surface ulceration of plaque and excessive calcification. From Wordnik.com. [foodconsumer.org] Reference
Mullin-burn, which wound its way through them with such tortuosity, that it was proverbial in the neighborhood to say of any man remarkable for dishonesty, "He's as crooked as the Mullin-burn," an epithet which was sometimes, although unjustly, jocularly applied to Ned himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three] Reference
Without a notion of denying himself anything he desired and could possibly have, he determined she should be his, but from fear as well as tortuosity, avoided the direct way of gaining her: the straight line would not, he judged, be the shortest: his father would never, or only after unendurable delay, consent to his marriage with a girl like Amy!. From Wordnik.com. [Weighed and Wanting] Reference
More especially it may now be declared that Professor Teufelsdröckh's acquirements, patience of research, philosophic and even poetic vigour, are here made indisputably manifest; and unhappily no less his prolixity and tortuosity and manifold ineptitude; that, on the whole, as in opening new mine-shafts is not unreasonable, there is much rubbish in his. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
This is at least partly explained by tortuosity effects, macromolecular crowding and confinement effects, but some (but not all. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Led by some tortuosity of mind. From Wordnik.com. [Don Juan] Reference
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