What's the difference between gemini and tortuous?
Gemini
Definition:
(n. pl.) A constellation of the zodiac, containing the two bright stars Castor and Pollux; also, the third sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about May 20th.
Example Sentences:
(1) The precursor rRNA molecules produced in vitro consisted of 6430 nucleotides, with about 15 residues derived from the Gemini vector on both ends.
(2) The Gemini 415A units with dual anodal rings were implanted under investigational protocol in 53 patients from September 1982 to August 1984.
(3) Perinatological data of these 94 twin births in 1982-1986 are compared with 103 gemini pregnancies in 1971-78, when sonography and diagnosis ante partum was hardly known.
(4) cDNA fragments of Type I and Type III procollagens were subcloned into Gemini pGEM vectors to synthesize the 35S-labeled cRNA probes.
(5) PrimeSense investors include Canaan Partners, Silver Lake, Gemini Israel Funds and Genesis Partners.
(6) 68 gemini pregnancies of the report period I (1978-80) which were not diagnosed early and 66 gemini pregnancies of the report period II (1982-84) with early diagnosis by sonography-screening have been compared.
(7) In addition, a projection was demonstrated to the nuclei gemini from the polymorphic zone deep to the olfactory tubercle.
(8) Addy first came across alkyl nitrites when he opened the Gemini gay club in Huddersfield in 1976 – the first gay club in the town – with his late partner of 22 years, Anthony Porter.
(9) NASA corrected the Gemini thruster problem by changing the ignition system wiring.
(10) The Gemini PC-2 linear peristaltic infusion device delivered a variety of blood products at a wide range of infusion rates without inducing a substantial degree of hemolysis.
(11) Thirty-nine adult Indian elephants (Elephas maximus indicus) of both sexes and various ages and weights, belonging to the Forest Department of the Government of Kerala (India), Temple Devaswoms, Gemini Circus and other private agencies, were used to derive formulae to predict body weight and height from body measurements.
(12) Twenty-four adult Indian elephants (Elephas maximus indicus) of both sexes and different ages and weights, belonging to the Temple Devaswoms, the Forest Department of the Government of Kerala and the Gemini Circus formed the experimental subjects from which formulae were derived to predict the total surface area from either body measurements or areas of individual regions.
(13) Gemini was followed in size by two other offshore windfarms, Germany’s 582MW Gode Wind 1 and 2, and the Netherlands’ 144MW Westermeerwind project.
(14) She suggests that he was a typical 'Gemini - and that he had two lives'.
(15) Two malformations arising from indentation of the papilla were compared: pili gemini and pagothrix.
(16) Some insertion mutants created duplication of gene regions, termed Gemini proteins, which still retained activity.
(17) Cross-talk was neither evident nor provokable in Gemini 415A units which had compatible Cordis lead systems.
(18) In terms of technology the launch of the Tiangong-1 places China about where the US was in the 1960s during the Gemini programme.
(19) More improvement may best be expected from earlier detection of gemini pregnancy and earlier action of intensive care.
(20) A malfunctioning orbital flight attitude thruster during the flight of Gemini VIII led to acceleration forces on astronauts Neil Armstrong (commander) and David Scott (pilot) that created the potential for derogation of oculo-vestibular and eye-hand coordination effects.
Tortuous
Definition:
(a.) Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
(a.) Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.
(a.) Injurious: tortious.
(a.) Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their tortuous or irregular outline did not usually correspond in position or appearance to normal tributaries of the vein.
(2) In the lateral segment of the left hepatic lobe, the bile ducts were anterior to the portal vein in seven cases, posterior in seven, and tortuous (ie, both anterior and posterior) in three.
(3) Carotid angiography demonstrated that the left internal carotid artery was tortuous toward the medial side in the C2 portion, and the saccular aneurysm was present in the anterior temporal artery 3 mm distal from the middle cerebral artery.
(4) The crypts of Lieberkühn were tortuous at the base.
(5) APV was less accurate in a 7.94-mm straight tube and in tortuous segments.
(6) A patient with trigeminal neuralgia caused by a tortuous vertebrobasilar artery is reported.
(7) The arterial anatomy of renal transplants is often complex, with overlapping, tortuous vessels which prevent easy visualisation of the origins of the transplant artery.
(8) The IMF, citing deep-seated concerns over the country’s debt sustainability, has still not decided whether it should participate in the third bailout Athens signed up to after months of tortuous negotiations in mid-2015.
(9) The close (20 nm) apposition between the membranes of the migrating cell and the radial fibre is maintained even in areas where the fibres bend or curve tortuously.
(10) Tortuous aortas, pancreatic pseudocysts, metastatic cancers, lymphomas, and low-lying livers may all present as pulsatile masses clinically mimicking an aortic aneurysm.
(11) This is in contrast to an expanded and tortuous granulomalike vascular network which was found around an abscess in chronic pulpitis.
(12) Using an iris vascularity scale that ranged from Grade 0 with no visible vessels to Grade 4 with dilated and tortuous vessels, we found that the intoxicated infants had increased grades in the iris periphery and collarette (P less than .02) as compared to 36 control newborns who had no cocaine in their urine.
(13) A second type of microtubule, smaller in diameter and tortuous in form, was also seen in certain cells and is presumed, from its shape, to have little to do with cytoplasmic support.
(14) The tortuous basement membrane features numerous hemidesmosomes along its length.
(15) The inter-Sertoli junctions are tortuous and predominantly perpendicular to the basal lamina.
(16) An elongated and tortuous vertebral artery was recognized at the left cerebello-pontine angle both by CT scan and vertebral angiograms.
(17) This condition is characterized by a decreased caliber of the internal carotid arteries and bilateral occlusion of the anterior and middle cerebral arteries with visualization of an extensive collateral network of tortuous blood vessels of the rete mirabile type at the base of the brain.
(18) The case of a 66-year-old woman who developed both trigeminal neuralgia and hemifacial spasm caused by a tortuous vertebrobasilar system is reported.
(19) The axons of all cell types were tortuous, and some entered the dorsolateral fascicle before crossing into the dorsal column: collaterals were often seen but could not be followed far.
(20) Golgi analysis of neocortical dendritic spine morphology extended our previous observations of immature, long, tortuous spines in one adult case of fraX (Rudelli, et al., Acta Neuropathologica 67:289-295, 1985) to 2 new cases.