(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.
Voluminous
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to volume or volumes.
(a.) Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.
(a.) Of great volume, or bulk; large.
(a.) Having written much, or produced many volumes; copious; diffuse; as, a voluminous writer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The existence of a voluminous literature on the placing, making, and closing of abdominal incisions suggests that no single ideal method exists.
(2) From ultrastructural point of view interstitial cells contain the organels proper to steroidogenetic cells (important smooth endoplasmic reticulum, many voluminous mitochondria with tubular cristae).
(3) The histologic exam revealed a proliferation of voluminous round lymphoid cells with 2 or 3 nucleoli often apposed to the nuclear membrane.
(4) It must be admitted: 2014 is looking voluminously rosy for those of us who love our lady gardens.
(5) The uterine artery has a voluminous branch to the uterine body and the cervix but does not anastomose with the vaginal artery.
(6) Considered by many to be a giant in the intellectual world, Judt chronicled his illness in unsparing detail in public lectures and essays – giving an extraordinary account that won him almost as much respect as his voluminous historical and political work, for which he was feted on both sides of the Atlantic.
(7) CT scan and angiography showed a voluminous intracerebral angiodysplasia and an aneurysm of the left anterior communicating artery.
(8) The investigations lead to the diagnosis of a voluminous plasma cell tumor involving the fossa infratemporalis, a part of the lateral orbit, as well as the middle and anterior cerebral fossae.
(9) The case of a 14-year old girl presenting with headaches, severe progressive hypertension and high plasma renin levels, in whom a voluminous epithelial liver hamartoma or adenoma was discovered at surgery is documented.
(10) Starvation resulted in extensive epithelial folds and a concomitant decrease in the crop volume, while the refed insects displayed an unfolded crop epithelium and a voluminous crop.
(11) During the differentiation of the infectious form into the reproductive form, the voluminous periplasm was gradually reduced and the cytoplasm expanded, until the entire bacterium was filled by the cytoplasm.
(12) An oral cholecystography showed that this formation corresponded to a voluminous choledochal cyst.
(13) But if you do dig into the voluminous polling studies and disaggregate, as the pollsters say, the results by gender, you find that what is troubling female voters is what is also troubling male voters – the future of health and education.
(14) Such factors include a specific syndrome the essential feature of which is that the mitral leaflets or part thereof, primarily the posterior one, are voluminous.
(15) Inoculation with K. pneumoniae mucoid strain DT-S into mice lung induced expansive, voluminous lethal pneumonia characterized with thickening of the alveolar septa caused by infiltration of inflammatory cell and packing of bacteria within alveolar spaces.
(16) Theresa May will recall her habit of dancing to Abba’s Dancing Queen in a pair of flared trousers and a yellow blouse with “huge voluminous sleeves” during a guest appearance on Desert Island Discs .
(17) His voluminous scientific oeuvre is appreciated, particularly with regard to his role as a pathfinder for the newly developing field of dermatovirology.
(18) The inner portion (between the nucleus and the ventricle) contains a voluminous Golgi apparatus, many mitochondria, RER cisternae which contain electron-dense material, SER, and many vesicles.
(19) A young 15 year old girl presented with a voluminous desmoid tumor of the calf.
(20) The principal nucleoli are more voluminous but their relations with the secondary constrictions and the satellites of the D and G chromosomes are not modified.