(a.) Resembling a serpent; having the shape or qualities of a serpent; subtle; winding or turning one way and the other, like a moving serpent; anfractuous; meandering; sinuous; zigzag; as, serpentine braid.
(n.) A mineral or rock consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of magnesia. It is usually of an obscure green color, often with a spotted or mottled appearance resembling a serpent's skin. Precious, or noble, serpentine is translucent and of a rich oil-green color.
(n.) A kind of ancient cannon.
(v. i.) To serpentize.
Example Sentences:
(1) Non-occupational exposure of the population living in the vicinity of the serpentine mining and processing mill in Nasławice was assessed.
(2) In October 2013, for a group exhibition at London’s Serpentine Gallery , they published a report called Youth Mode: A Report on Freedom , one chapter of which was entitled “Normcore”.
(3) The rock consists essentially of the fibrous serpentine mineral chrysotile (asbestos) and platy serpentines.
(4) The Serpentine's Poetry Marathon talks last year gave us 47 men and 18 women, as did its Manifesto Marathon the previous year.
(5) A few details of their plans have been revealed including the indication of it being the Serpentine's lowest pavilion ever, with the roof barely 1.5 metres (5ft) off the ground.
(6) Serpentine vessels were well seen as flow voids against high signal cyst or tumor on T2-weighted images, but contrast-enhanced CT also demonstrated them.
(7) A Swiss, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, is the co-director of the Serpentine Gallery.
(8) We present a case of cerebral giant serpentine aneurysm (GSA) and propose a definition of GSA.
(9) This giant serpentine aneurysm is a rather rare disease.
(10) In 10 years, only one solo woman architect, Zaha Hadid, has sketched the Serpentine's garden tent.
(11) Multiple extremely low-intensity serpentine "flow void" signs, indicating afferent and efferent vessels, were observed within or around the tumor.
(12) But later came work as diverse as The Maybe (1995) featuring the actor Tilda Swinton lying in a glass vitrine in the Serpentine Gallery, in London; a melted silver dollar drawn into wire so thin it was as long as the Empire State Building is tall; the wrapping of Rodin's The Kiss in a mile of string; and a 40-minute video of Parker interviewing Noam Chomsky.
(13) Angiograms in each case revealed a distinctive serpentine vascular channel surrounded by an avascular area causing a "mass effect."
(14) Environmental factors: The drinking-water pool in northern California is contaminated with asbestos of the serpentine type, which is associated with mesothelioma of the peritoneum and carcinoma of the lung, gallbladder, and pancreas.
(15) A simple and effective method of temporary tarsorrhaphy, which is referred to as intermarginal serpentine temporary tarsorrhaphy, is presented.
(16) Two cases of serpentine supravenous hyperpigmentation developing in the area of fotemustine infusions are reported.
(17) In some macaque species, transcervical aspiration of the uterine contents carries a significant risk of disturbing the cervical milieu due to the serpentine nature of the cervix.
(18) Overseas, he designed the United Nations secretariat in New York, the Communist party headquarters in Paris and Serpentine gallery summer pavilion in Hyde Park, London.
(19) Turn another, and you gaze on the royal park with the glories of the Serpentine.
(20) That led to a commission from the Serpentine Gallery, and performances in Paris and Moscow.
Sinuous
Definition:
(a.) Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form; winding; crooked.
Example Sentences:
(1) The astrocytes had generally two types of processes: (1) thread-like processes of relatively constant width with few ramifications and few lamellar appendages and (2) the sinuous processes with clusters of lamellar appendages.
(2) In the intercellular space long and smooth septa are clustered in sinuous strands and intramembrane particles appear on the PF.
(3) According to observations carried out in ovo and after fixation, morphological modifications are demonstrated in the developing vasculature of the heparin-treated CAMs which, compared with the control CAMs, show dilated and sinuous arterial and venous branches, denser and irregular capillary networks, and a high number of vascular primordia.
(4) This structure contains cells with single or double nuclei, round or oval in shape, surrounded by a light halo, with scattered chromatin and a well-defined nucleolus, acidophilic cytoplasm containing, in comparison with the common myocardium, few sinuous myofibrils with transverse striations and a larger amount of glycogen.
(5) The sinuous processes rich in lamellae were predominant in protoplasmic astrocytes, and clearly corresponded to the sheet- or veil-like processes of Golgi-impregnated astrocytes.
(6) In the heart of the dog five types of thebesian veins were served: arboriform, sinuous, brush-like, canaliculated and stellate.
(7) Using cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) in glutaraldehyde as fixative, we observed sinuous fiber-like structures 300-500 nm long and 7-14 nm thick in the spaces between the collagen fibers of rat incisor predentin.
(8) Some PtK-2 cells have straight stress fibers which stained with anti-actin, but in confluent cultures all PtK-2 cells have, instead, sinuous phase-dense fibers which stained with antibody.
(9) Finally, three XN-cells were intrageniculate interneurons, which possessed small somata (mean soma size = 174 micron2), fine sinuous dendrites covered with beadlike varicosities on stalked appendages, and no obvious axon.
(10) This layer is characterized by flattened cells with sinuous processes, extracellular spaces containing an amorphous material, and the presence of junctions between its cells.
(11) The Four,” as they came to be called, created in the mid-nineties their own highly individual interpretation of the new art, subsequently dubbed “the Glasgow Style.” They liked sinuous, elongated animal-vegetable forms with a strong vertical emphasis in their overall design; the human figure, too, was stylised almost beyond recognition.
(12) Its cell body is usually found in the inner half of the SG layer and its sinuous dendrites cross the SG layer and enter the marginal layer.
(13) Arterial angiography identifies polyaneurysmal dystrophy; in the context of a twisted and sinuous system of large arteries, multiple spindle-shaped aneurysms can be distinguished which are frequently bilateral and symmetrical.
(14) In the ALD intestinal epithelium, DAB+ material was also seen in long, sinuous, tubular or cisternal elements intermingled and occasionally in continuity with peroxisomes.
(15) The mantle dentin contains sinuous tubules with a type I arrangement of SIAR classification (1986).
(16) The cells of papillary thyroid carcinoma are shown to have the following characteristic morphological features: oval or oval to roundish shape of nuclei, uneven sinuous, folded border of the nuclear membrane, nuclear fissure, intranuclear cytoplasmic inclusions, optically clean nuclei.
(17) In the cervical enlargement of the rat spinal cord, fluoride-resistant acid phosphatase (FRAP) occurs in most of the small dark sinuous primary afferent central terminals (CI-terminals) of type I-synaptic glomeruli of lamina II and is lacking in the large light roundish primary afferent CII-terminals of type II-glomeruli.
(18) Degeneration of the tactile cells in epithelium of the cat sinuous hairs after sectioning the infraorbital nerve manifests itself as cytoplasmic vacuolization and induration with electron opaque bodies in it, changes in nuclear configuration and in chromatin density.
(19) The cytoplasm of macrophages gives only short, somewhat sinuous processes.
(20) Selective arteriography of the coeliac trunk showed extremely sinuous intra-hepatic arteries in 3 of these cases, and obstruction of the portal vein, in one case.