Tortuous

Definition

tortuous /'tↄ:tʃuǝs/ adj ၁။ ေကြ႕ေကာက္ေသာ။ a tortuous mountain track ❍ a tortuous route/ journey. ၂။ ( usu derog ) ေဝ့လည္ေၾကာင္ပတ္။ a tortuous argument ❍ tortuous logic. tortuously adv

Examples

1. ‘The common carotid artery sometimes follows a very tortuous course
2. forming one or more distinct loops in the neck.’
3. ‘The vessels appear enlarged and tortuous
4. especially the venous capillaries.’
5. ‘These veins are tortuous and bulky
6. making it virtually impossible to identify the spinal arteries.’
7. ‘It is perhaps all the more dangerous
8. more labyrinthine
9. and more tortuous for this reason.’
10. ‘The campaign is a long
11. sometimes tortuous period of time and these qualities help everyone not just survive
12. but thrive.’
13. ‘Eventually
14. after a particularly tortuous twist
15. the path opened out and they came to the Cave of the Prophet.’
16. ‘A barium enema showed a narrowed
17. tortuous sigmoid colon with multiple diverticuli and thickening of the bowel wall.’
18. ‘He was as tortuous and convoluted as a monkey puzzle tree.’
19. ‘It allows us to insert tortuous vessels where flexibility is very important.’
20. ‘Several tortuous hypertrophic nerve bundles were also embedded in the fibrous tissue.’
21. ‘Babies born at 25 weeks and less are at high risk of death
22. a long
23. tortuous journey through life
24. and disability.’
25. ‘The splenic vein is not invested in a common sheath with the artery - it is retropancreatic and never tortuous.’
26. ‘An aneurysm expands laterally with systole while a tortuous aorta does not.’
27. ‘Varicose veins are tortuous
28. twisted
29. or lengthened veins.’
30. ‘The Ryder Cup trail has often been tortuous
31. twisting and downright tedious
32. but the rewards to the Scottish economy are expected to be enormous.’
33. ‘But that proved only the beginning of a long and tortuous road full of false starts and broken promises.’
34. ‘Neither fascicles of smooth muscle cells nor thick-walled tortuous blood vessels were present.’
35. ‘They all appear enlarged and have a tortuous course
36. especially the capillary veins.’
37. ‘The nanofiller also creates a tortuous path for the penetration of gaseous vapors and liquids into the polymer.’
38. ‘Long
39. heavily calcified stenoses in tortuous vessels or at bifurcations and chronic total occlusions are less suitable.’