tortuous
/ˈtɔːtʃʊəs/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈtɔːtʃʊəs/
tortuous
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
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- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Aw vowel
- Ending
- Clear final sound
tor - tuous -> tortuous
Myanmar meaning
အလှည့်အပတ်အကွေ့အကောက်များသော။ သွေဖီတိမ်းစောင်းသော။ ကွေ့ဝိုက်သော။
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- ‘The common carotid artery sometimes follows a very tortuous course, forming one or more distinct loops in the neck.’
- ‘The vessels appear enlarged and tortuous, especially the venous capillaries.’
- ‘These veins are tortuous and bulky, making it virtually impossible to identify the spinal arteries.’
- ‘It is perhaps all the more dangerous, more labyrinthine, and more tortuous for this reason.’
- ‘The campaign is a long, sometimes tortuous period of time and these qualities help everyone not just survive, but thrive.’
- ‘Eventually, after a particularly tortuous twist, the path opened out and they came to the Cave of the Prophet.’
- ‘A barium enema showed a narrowed, tortuous sigmoid colon with multiple diverticuli and thickening of the bowel wall.’
- ‘He was as tortuous and convoluted as a monkey puzzle tree.’
- ‘It allows us to insert tortuous vessels where flexibility is very important.’
- ‘Several tortuous hypertrophic nerve bundles were also embedded in the fibrous tissue.’
- ‘Babies born at 25 weeks and less are at high risk of death, a long, tortuous journey through life, and disability.’
- ‘The splenic vein is not invested in a common sheath with the artery - it is retropancreatic and never tortuous.’
- ‘An aneurysm expands laterally with systole while a tortuous aorta does not.’
- ‘Varicose veins are tortuous, twisted, or lengthened veins.’
- ‘The Ryder Cup trail has often been tortuous, twisting and downright tedious, but the rewards to the Scottish economy are expected to be enormous.’
- ‘But that proved only the beginning of a long and tortuous road full of false starts and broken promises.’
- ‘Neither fascicles of smooth muscle cells nor thick-walled tortuous blood vessels were present.’
- ‘They all appear enlarged and have a tortuous course, especially the capillary veins.’
- ‘The nanofiller also creates a tortuous path for the penetration of gaseous vapors and liquids into the polymer.’
- ‘Long, heavily calcified stenoses in tortuous vessels or at bifurcations and chronic total occlusions are less suitable.’
Synonyms
winding, twisted, twisting, meandering, ambiguous, anfractuous, artful, bent, byzantine, circuitous, complex, complicated, convoluted, crafty, crooked, cunning, curved, deceitful, deceptive, devious, difficult, dishonest, false, flexuous, indirect, intricate, involute, involved, labyrinthine, mazy, meandrous, misleading, perverse, roundabout, serpentine, sinuous, sly, snaky, tricky, vermiculate, very twisted, zigzag
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