What's the difference between knurly and misshapen?

Knurly


Definition:

  • (superl.) Full of knots; hard; tough; hence, capable of enduring or resisting much.

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Misshapen


Definition:

  • (a.) Having a bad or ugly form.

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  • (1) Capote clearly identified with this "chunky, misshapen child-man".
  • (2) These cells included many abnormal forms such as giant cells and misshapen cells.
  • (3) A sixfold increase (P less than 0.0001) in hepatic iron and a fivefold increase in lysosomal iron (P less than 0.01) was observed after iron loading; as a result, hepatocyte lysosomes became enlarged and misshapen.
  • (4) Findings common to both and typical for this chromosome aberration include a narrow protruding forehead, hypertelorism, non-horizontal position of the eyes, ptosis, strabismus, broad root, and short upturned tip of thenose, carp mouth, receding chin, misshapen ears, simian creases, and severe mental retardation.
  • (5) Because major components of the craniofacial complex were generally present, although misshapen, changes in the atelencephalic skull seem to be deformations rather than malformations.
  • (6) Walking around Forgemasters it is impossible not to be stirred: great misshapen lumps of scrap steel, red heat shining through furnace doors, huge presses, and a machining hall where the black crust is cut from immense forgings to produce shiny precision-engineered parts.
  • (7) It was "misshapen" by torture, bore signs of beatings, and had a fractured skull, he told the committee.
  • (8) The overall histological picture consisted of a fairly repetitive pattern dominated by an exuberant and diffuse hyperplasia of frequently misshapen and poorly outlined follicles, associated with a striking proliferation of capillary vessels and a very consistent amount of plasma cells both extending in the follicular and interfollicular areas.
  • (9) The gross anomalies involved the smaller size of the club-foot talus and the increased medial deviation of a stunted, misshapen head and neck region.
  • (10) The first and second pairs of valvulae were often misshapen and reduced in sclerotization and length, or even fused with the third valvulae.
  • (11) A newborn female is described who exhibited a characteristic facial dysmorphology including deep-set eyes, broad nasal bridge, small mouth, high-arched and narrow palate, severly receding mandible and misshapen ears; constant flexion of the proximal interphalangeal joints, and short distal phalanges and nails of fingers; a congenital heart defect; marked muscular hypotonia, motor and growth retardation.
  • (12) Although differentiated, most tissues are morphologically misshapen.
  • (13) The abnormalities fell into two main classes: misshapen or bulging eggs and eggs coated with a superficial layer of amorphous calcium, variously termed dusted, white banded, chalky or pink eggs.
  • (14) Newly reverted cells were misshapen and osmotically sensitive.
  • (15) Their outer segments were at first short, wide, and misshapen; only as they grew longer and narrower did they become straight and properly aligned.
  • (16) Admittedly he does now resemble a boiled sweet that was lost down the back of the sofa only to be unearthed months later, fuzzy and misshapen.
  • (17) The increased GalTase activity on t-bearing spermatids is not due to decreased hydrolysis of the GalTase substrates, and is appropriately localized over the acrosomal region, even on misshapen sperm heads occasionally seen in t-sperm populations.
  • (18) Flickerman functions as the grotesque face of the elite, with bright blue hair and a face misshapen by frequent visits to the plastic surgeon.
  • (19) ); eye (lens misshapen or severely thinned, optic cup incompletely invaginated); diencephalon (epiphysis bifurcated or off-center, supernumerary outgrowths); cardiovascular structures (atrium and major blood vessels enlarged); and tailbud (curled into hindgut: ourentery).
  • (20) Significant dental findings were severe enamel hypoplasia, conical and misshapen teeth, hypodontia, and impactions.

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