What's the difference between tortuose and twisted?
Tortuose
Definition:
(a.) Wreathed; twisted; winding.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ear canal molds were analyzed in terms of tortuosity, caliber, and degree of funneling.
(2) The angiographic appearance of the tumors was the same in all five cases: hypervascularity of the tumor including encasement, dilatation, tortuosity and displacement of feeding arteries, remarkable tumor stain and early venous filling.
(3) Calcification or tortuosity significantly decreased the success rate.
(4) Reports have indicated that capillary tortuosity increases with adaptation to hypoxia.
(5) We conclude that capillary tortuosity in m. soleus is unchanged by training.
(6) The mass showed hyperpigmented borders, overlying retinal constracture, retinal vessel tortuosity, and vitreous condensations.
(7) At three to four days there was splaying and tortuosity of the loops of Henle.
(8) From the decay of the first phase the tortuosity factor for extracellular radial movement of TEA ions was calculated as 1.59.5.
(9) First, graft degeneration affected seven grafts with earliest evidence of elongation, tortuosity, irregular dilation or aneurysmal formation at four years.
(10) The changes noted were basilar and vertebral artery tortuosity, enlargement, and duplication of the vertebro-basilar junction.
(11) Tortuosity of LIMA was negotiated using the Tracker-Seeker catheter guidewire system.
(12) The contribution of capillary tortuosity and branching to total capillary length was dependent on sarcomere length and varied from 5 to 22%, consistent with that shown previously for mammalian limb muscles over this range of sarcomere lengths.
(13) In two patients selective catheterization of the uterine artery was impossible due to atherosclerotic tortuosity in one and tumoral invasion in the other.
(14) All cardiac structures undergo regressive modifications: valvular apparatus show fibrosis, collagen fragmentation, lipid accumulation and calcifications, the coronary arteries are characterized by tortuosity, minimal atherosclerotic lesions, calcium precipitates and--at least in animals--by an imbalance between the capillary bed extension and the myocyte hypertrophy.
(15) Patients with vigorous achalasia (n = 17), defined by amplitude greater than or equal to 37 mm Hg, and patients with classic achalasia (n = 37), defined as amplitude less than 37 mm Hg, had substantial overlap in radiographic parameters of esophageal dilation, tortuosity, and tertiary contractions.
(16) Furthermore, multivariate testing demonstrated stenosis angulation (multivariate p less than 0.001), proximal tortuosity (p less than 0.001), decreased preatherectomy minimum lumen dimension (p = 0.032), and calcification (p = 0.041) to correlate independently with adverse outcome and complex, probably thrombus-associated stenoses to have a favorable outcome (p = 0.055).
(17) No systematic difference was found in capillary tortuosity with either body size, athletic ability, or aerobic capacity.
(18) Percutaneous angiographic embolization controlled bleeding in seven cases and was not feasible in one case with tortuosity of the celiac axis.
(19) The retinal veins show pronounced tortuosity with Fabry's disease.
(20) At the later times, however, the abnormalities in the sodium taurocholate model were much more severe, with a substantial loss of vascular density, tortuosity and abrupt terminations of those vessels present.
Twisted
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Twist
(a.) Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aberrant forms (elongated and twisted) in the vacuole and double virions in the plasma membrane were observed as early as 65 h after infection.
(2) Electron microscopy shows that at neutral pH, CEA particles consist of homogeneous, morphologically distinctive, twisted rod-shaped particles, about 9 X 40 nm.
(3) Rapid swelling of the knee following a blow or twisting injury is considered a significant injury.
(4) Intermolecular contacts occur in both oligomers in the minor groove: in the B form through twisted guanine-guanine hydrogen bonding, and in the Z form through base-base stacking and the water network.
(5) Ings twisted the knee during his first training session with Klopp in charge and tests have shown the former Burnley forward ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament, meaning that a player who has just broken into England’s senior team will be out for a minimum of six months.
(6) Leicester looked a little sorry for themselves and, with their concentration down, United twisted the knife.
(7) Gowher Rizvi, chief representative of the prime minister, Sheik Hasina, told the Guardian that preparations for the forthcoming elections, were "completely on track" and that the tribunal, probing crimes committed during the 1971 war in which Bangladesh broke away from Pakistan, was about bringing justice previously denied by "the twists and turns" of the country's history.
(8) The base orientations are characterized by a substantial inclination and propellor twist.
(9) Among the non-standard postures examined were: twisting while lifting or lowering, lifting and lowering from lying, sitting, kneeling, and squatting positions, and carrying loads under conditions of constricted ceiling heights.
(10) A vicious feud playing out within Uzbekistan's ruling family took a new twist on Monday , when prosecutors announced that the clan's most flamboyant member faces charges of involvement in mafia-style corruption.
(11) The possible arrangements of molecules within the twisted ribbons have been deduced and are found to be fairly closely related.
(12) Idiopathic torsion dystonia (ITD) is characterized by sustained, involuntary muscle contractions, frequently causing twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures.
(13) These results indicate that the polypeptide chain, driven by energetics (nonbonded and electrostatic interactions), is folded into a typical left-handed twisted four-helix bundle with an approximately 4-fold symmetric array, as observed in most four alpha-helix proteins.
(14) In the mutants twist and snail, which fail to differentiate the ventrally derived mesoderm, mitoses specific to the mesoderm are absent.
(15) Fulham were helped by United being forced into a trio of substitutions at the interval, as Rafael succumbed to a twisted ankle, Cleverly had double vision and Evans had back trouble.
(16) Blockage of the balloon system was possibly caused by twisting the system to reach and pass the lesion in the branch of left circumflex coronary artery.
(17) In the tradition of the American author Patricia Highsmith, creator of the charming psychopath Tom Ripley, Rendell used twisting plots to expose twisted minds.
(18) From previous genetic and biochemical studies it was hypothesized that dorsal might be responsible for the activation of the zygotic gene twist.
(19) Finally, the twisted nose was treated by freeing the nasal components, straightening the bone and cartilage, and replacing them in their anatomical positions.
(20) It doesn’t do a lot at the moment, but there’s a lot of potential for a modern twist on board games here.