(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.
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.