What's the difference between convoluted and gordian?
Convoluted
Definition:
(a.) Having convolutions.
(a.) Folded in tortuous windings.
Example Sentences:
(1) When compared with lissencephalic species, a great horizontal fibrillary system (which is vertically arranged in gyral regions) was observed in convoluted brains.
(2) The method is implemented with a digital non-causal (zero-phase shift) filter, based on the convolution with a finite impulse response, to make the computation time compatible with the use of low-cost microcomputers.
(3) In situ hybridization of SMG sections showed that Aeg-1 and Aeg-2 transcripts are produced by the cells of granular convoluted tubules.
(4) The NAD-dependent enzymes (except alpha-GPDH) showed a stronger reactivity in the proximal tubules, while the NADP-dependent ones were more reactive in the thick limb of Henle's loop and distal convoluted tubules.
(5) The recent identification among non-Hodgkin's malignant lymphomas of a high-grade malignancy entity of possible thymic origin and defined as lymphoblastic convoluted-cell lymphoma allowed the morphologic and radiological diagnosis of nine cases of this disease.
(6) Peritubular capillary microperfusion was used to examine the effects of protein-free and hyperoncotic homologous plasma on fluid reabsorption by proximal convoluted tubules in the hydropenic rat.
(7) In submandibular glands, 1 to 4 weeks after ovariectomy, no changes were observed in percentages of the acinar, intercalated duct, and granular convoluted tubular areas occupying photomicrographs.
(8) Rail campaigners claim that the convoluted carriage-ordering system contributes to overcrowding.
(9) The delivery of sodium to the end of the proximal convoluted tubule was considerably reduced in each group of thiazide-treated rats.
(10) Glucose-6-phosphatase was 20 times higher in the early part of the convoluted segment than in the late part of the straight segment.
(11) There were large numbers of lipid vacuoles within hepatocytes, epithelial cells of the proximal convoluted tubule of kidney and macrophages of the liver, spleen and lymph node.
(12) Asked whether the US tax code was convoluted and difficult to understand partly because of lobbying by companies including Apple for exemptions, Cook replied: "No doubt."
(13) As determined by in situ hybridization analysis, epithelial cells of proximal convoluted tubules of cortical nephrons express KAP mRNA in response to androgenic stimulation while similar cells in the juxtamedullary S3 segment of the tubules express KAP mRNA under estrogenic and pituitary hormonal control.
(14) Three antibodies bound to brush-border membranes of proximal convoluted and straight tubules.
(15) The smaller dose of iohexol and the larger dose of all the contrast media induced a statistically significant (P < .001 or .01) cytoplasmic vacuolization in the proximal convoluted tubule (PCT) cells.
(16) The basement membranes of the proximal and distal convoluted tubules, those of Bowman's capsule and glomerulus, and the mesangial matrix were labeled for all the antigens but to differing extents.
(17) The microfibril has been constructed by convolution of th elementary fibril with a two dimensional point lattice.
(18) The differences in performance for successive cross-hand and within-hand keypresses were examined using IKT distributions and hazard functions, and it was shown that the empirical hazard functions could be fit by the theoretical hazard function derived from the convolution of normal and inverse Gaussian random variables.
(19) Such a scheme (linear convolutional recognizer, LCR) assigns a number (weight) to each type of monomer, and then convolutes some window function with the sequence of weights.
(20) These studies demonstrate that net oxalate secretion occurs in the early portions of the proximal convoluted tubule, undergoes bidirectional transport of approximately equal magnitude in later segments of the proximal tubule, and probably is not transported in more distal nephron sites.
Gordian
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to Gordius, king of Phrygia, or to a knot tied by him; hence, intricate; complicated; inextricable.
(a.) Pertaining to the Gordiacea.
(n.) One of the Gordiacea.
Example Sentences:
(1) Loose ends in efforts to untangle the Gordian knot of Syria | Letters Read more “What is important is Russia has to not be engaged in any activities against anybody but [Isis],” secretary of state John Kerry said.
(2) Loose ends in efforts to untangle the Gordian knot of Syria | Letters Read more Moscow, however, angrily dismissed the reports as false, the TASS news agency reported.
(3) But by reaching out with a surprise pope-brokered agreement with Raúl Castro on 17 December 2014, Obama appears to have cut this Gordian knot.
(4) Fifa and the Qatar World Cup organising committee are now tangled in a Gordian knot.
(5) Housing is not only part of the solution to this gordian knot, it should be a major part of the new approach.
(6) The promising trends in our country has set the stage for cutting the Gordian knot of more than three decades of Iran-US alienation – and specifically resolving disagreements over Iran's nuclear programme.
(7) Will an elected mayor prove to be the way to cut the Gordian Knot of major health service reconfigurations, or will they be paralysed by competing interests across the region?
(8) Extract: “ President Trump is anti-establishment when it comes to persona, of course – he thinks that every governmental Gordian knot can be cut, that he can simply bulldoze his opposition, that deals are for sissies and that tough guys finish first.
(9) That sounds a bit pompous but, if one is to avoid an intellectual morass consisting of the various assertions about needs, obligations, and so on that emanate from rival concerned parties and various professional interests on the one hand, and simplistic political slogans whose only virtue is that they cut the Gordian Knot (but provide no real enlightenment) on the other, then we need to be doing just this.
(10) Identifying characteristics and the life cycle of Gordian worms are briefly discussed.
(11) "We both felt that Joyce's final work was a great compilation of enigmas, a Chinese box, a labyrinthine puzzle, a Gordian knot which seemed impossible to cut."
(12) When he describes Alexander the Great slicing through the Gordian knot, Gombrich regrets that his mother never let him do anything like that.
(13) The doubters said it would not be the catalyst for investment to small and medium-sized companies and would not cut the Gordian knot that has seen bank lending to businesses fall quarter after quarter.