(superl.) Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.
(superl.) Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head.
(superl.) Difficult; intricate; perplexed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Andrew Romano, Newsweek How would these eloquent know-it-alls – these brainiacs bent on "speaking truth to stupid" – untangle the knotty threads of information that make actual breaking news so difficult to sort out?
(2) It originally quoted Kathryn Bigelow as saying "naughty subjects" rather than "knotty subjects"
(3) For example, 1 group, "knotty amacrine cells," has small cell bodies and a profusion of small, varicose, intertwined processes that span up to 30 microns and are essentially monostratified, but each of the 3 types ends in different strata.
(4) He has friendly, wide-set eyes, a burst of knotty dreadlocks and a gnarled scar just below his jaw, from when he fell from a low wire as a child and impaled himself on the protruding end of a metal coil.
(5) She was a sane voice that could be relied upon to help them make sense of the knotty complications of their personal, sexual lives.
(6) Eight cases were reported in order to elucidate the important role of electron microscopy (EM) played in diagnosis of knotty tumors.
(7) What do you think they can buy for that?” Kasich also raised the other knotty problem that is causing divisions within the Republican party: preexisting conditions.
(8) The A1 cells are small axonless neurons with knotty and dense dendritic trees.
(9) This is potentially a knotty problem, but a few points seem to suggest that Wales's concerns are overdone.
(10) Bloomberg Associates, as he is calling his private consultancy, will be what the New York Times has called an “urban SWAT team” that will be called in by struggling cities to help solve their knotty problems absolutely free of charge.
(11) Updated at 9.37pm BST 8.47pm BST A novel Peace Prize idea This is interesting - European leaders have apparently been considering the knotty problem of who should pick up the Nobel Peace Prize in December.
(12) There is a knotty ethical problem underlying such arguments.
(13) Subjects ranged from the English civil war in The Staffordshire Rebels (1965) and local railways in The Knotty (1966) to the audience's second world war memories in Hands Up!
(14) This knotty and discomforting genealogy that binds Englishness to empire and slavery and their fractious legacies of racism and inequality seems to be too thought-provoking for Gove's deeply conservative vision of English literature.
(15) But it would help his cause, the lawyer argued, by addressing several of the knotty issues related to his future.
(16) Every time a party has looked at this problem, it’s been too knotty to unpick and it has given up.
(17) What distinguishes this recession from those we have seen before is one particularly knotty fact: unemployment has increased a good deal more than employment has fallen.
(18) Only a better understanding of their pathogenesis, and of how the glomerulus normally retains plasma protein, will solve this knotty problem.
(19) The prospect of Erdoğan unbound suggests a number of other knotty problems may become more intractable.
(20) Canary Wharf – modernist, faceless, towering – houses the mighty investment banks; the City – quirky, crowded, knotty, historic – has the brokers, insurers and ancillary services; Mayfair – discreet, stylish, cosmopolitan – is home to the hedge funds and private equity companies.
Varicose
Definition:
(a.) Irregularly swollen or enlarged; affected with, or containing, varices, or varicosities; of or pertaining to varices, or varicosities; as, a varicose nerve fiber; a varicose vein; varicose ulcers.
(a.) Intended for the treatment of varicose veins; -- said of elastic stockings, bandages. and the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Electron microscopic immunohistochemistry revealed histamine-immunostaining in granules in a small number of nerve fibers and varicosities.
(2) Venous valves do not play a role in pathogenesis of primary varicose veins.
(3) Fluorescent nerve fibers with axonal varicosities were distributed on the wall of the preretinal blood vessels in the fluorescence histochemical study.
(4) Varicose fibres were found in the myenteric plexuses of the duodenum, jejunum, ileum and colon.
(5) Results of the complex clinical and phlebographic examination of 106 patients with the varicose disease were studied.
(6) In one patient the organism was repeatedly isolated from a phlegmone developing in the depth of a varicose leg ulcer.
(7) The prevalence of varicose veins of the lower limbs and their risk factors were investigated in the group of 696 women working at a large department store.
(8) A low waist-thigh ratio was associated with a high prevalence of varicose veins in women.
(9) After a phlebitic occlusion of the right superficial femoral and external iliac veins he had been operated on twice for varicose veins.
(10) 96 patients were treated in two years by Ambulatory and Hemodynamic Treatment of Varicose Veins (CHIVA cure), representing 131 legs that underwent surgery.
(11) Axons of these small neurons probably have varicosities located on the CDC axons in the neuropil of the cerebral ganglion, indicating synaptic contacts.
(12) The diffuse junctions, spreading out extensively over the muscle fiber surface, were characterized by two types of varicose swellings (or terminal varicosities) of nerve endings.
(13) After standardizing for the other variables there was a statistically significant excess of varicose veins in women wearing corsets and roll-ons compared with those wearing less-constrictive garments.
(14) Random analysis of 5,000 additional epithelial cells in these sections showed no close associations to nerve elements with significant accumulations of neurosecretory vesicles (varicosities).
(15) Simultaneous measurements were made on 47 legs after phlebography (normal: 8; side-arm varicosities: 17; long-saphenous insufficiency: 15; postthrombotic syndrome: 7).
(16) Sites of chemical synaptic interaction between the sensory cells and L7 are located at varicosities along sensory cell processes that overlie the main axons of L7, since these structures have been shown ultrastructurally to contain active zones.
(17) The varicosities contain two types of vesicle: electron-lucent vesicles (mean diameter 50 nm) which are immunopositive for GABA and larger (80 nm) electron-dense vesicles which are immunopositive for neuropeptide Y.
(18) Varicography in patients with recurrent varicose veins frequently demonstrates an intact LSV.
(19) A longitudinal study was carried out at 11 secondary schools (Gymnasium) of the city of Bochum to investigate the early and preclinical stages of developing varicose veins.
(20) After differentiation, both Ewing's and neural lines developed neuritic processes with varicosities and little arborization, except for the initially undifferentiated Ewing's line (A4573) which displayed extensive lateral sprouting from neuritic processes after differentiation.