(a.) Winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous; as, the anfractuous spires of a born.
Example Sentences:
(1) In one case, there was a very large anfractuous cavity in the socket and head, complicated by a pathological fracture of the socket, which raised the suspicion of a malignant tumor.
(2) The scanning electron microscope shows that the keratocytes of the macular dystrophy of the cornea have an irregular and anfractuous surface and that some cytoplasmic particles are broken off.
Uneven
Definition:
(a.) Not even; not level; not uniform; rough; as, an uneven road or way; uneven ground.
(a.) Not equal; not of equal length.
(a.) Not divisible by two without a remainder; odd; -- said of numbers; as, 3, 7, and 11 are uneven numbers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The local guide led us down a rough, uneven pathway, talking as he went.
(2) Using EIOM the determination of the homogeneous and uneven components of respiratory resistance was possible in control animals, whereas in AAE group resistance was entirely represented by its uneven component.
(3) While there has been some unevenness in the extent to which successful risk reeducation has occurred, it is nonetheless dramatic compared with prior health educational efforts, and especially so given the exceptional sensitivity of the sexual and illicit drug using behaviors at issue.
(4) "Of course this recovery which is starting is likely to be choppy and uneven.
(5) However, the number of abortion providers declined by five percent between 1982 and 1985, and the geographic distribution of abortion services continued to be markedly uneven.
(6) Tillerson described US progress on sanctions alongside China as uneven.
(7) The redistribution of the elderly population in the United States is receiving increased attention as the sociodemographic consequences of the uneven geography of the aged are becoming more evident to state and local policymakers.
(8) In most of the cases of MML there were unevenly distributed poorly defined leukemic, infiltrates in the renal cortex and medulla.
(9) Macroscopic and microscopic examination of plaster models obtained from impressions with alginate mass Kromopan Super and silicone mass Dentaflex Pasta confirmed that leaving of saliva and blood on the surface of impressions causes uneven surface of plaster models.
(10) A wide but uneven distribution was substantiated for the rat brain.
(11) The uneven geographic distribution of physicians has been identified as a significant problem for the delivery of health care services.
(12) What Katrina left behind: New Orleans' uneven recovery and unending divisions Read more Ten years on, resentment still lingers about the failure of the federal levee system during hurricane Katrina, the botched response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), and the long and difficult process of accessing billions of dollars in grant money for rebuilding, which for some people is not finished.
(13) The computerized tomographic scans showed uneven wear of the glenoid surface, osteophytes, large cysts, and posterior displacement of the humeral head.
(14) The regional CMP distributions in the brains were uneven on both the 2nd and 7th experimental days.
(15) They are uneven ventilation throughout the lung; redistribution of regional pulmonary blood flow between zones due to gravity; nonuniform pulmonary blood flow between individual metarteriolar-capillary networks because of local vasoconstriction; uneven systemic blood flow between organs; irregular systemic blood flow at the microcirculatory level, producing inadequate nutritional flow to the tissues; and redistribution of body water, leading particularly to fluid accumulation in the extracellular compartment, with expanded interstitial space and contracted plasma volume (hypovolemia).
(16) Jeegar Kakkad at EEF, the manufacturers' organisation When viewed in the context of previous, often uneven recoveries, UK economic growth remains healthy with manufacturing enjoying the best 12 months since 1994.
(17) The hypotonic treatment was shown to result in differential decondensation of chromosomes which consists in the uneven distribution of deoxyribonucleoprotein (DNP) fibrils along chromatids.
(18) Mortality statistics were used to check the previously observed uneven geographical distribution of multiple sclerosis (MS) in Finland, and also to compare the distribution of tuberculosis and MS with each other.
(19) Additional impairments occur in a large percentage of patients, but are unevenly distributed in the disease groups.
(20) The uneven distribution of long term mentally ill patients suggests that community pyschiatric resources might be better targeted at those practices with higher numbers of such patients.