tortuosity
Americannoun
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tortuosities
plural
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the state of being tortuous; twisted form or course; crookedness.
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a twist, bend, or crook.
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a twisting or crooked part, passage, or thing.
noun
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the state or quality of being tortuous
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a twist, turn, or coil
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Etymology
Origin of tortuosity
From the Late Latin word tortuōsitās, dating back to 1595–1605. See tortuous, -ity
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On examination of the fundus of the eye there is found slight tortuosity of the vessels with possibly areas of degeneration in the retina.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
He who cheats his neighbour believes in tortuosity, and, as Carlyle says, has the Supreme Quack for his God.
From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Sir Henry Jones
This necessarily causes a tortuosity of the vessel which can be easily seen in such arteries as the temporals, brachials, radials, and other arteries near the surface of the skin.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
As I expected, the depraved Whig Journalist, with characteristic mental tortuosity, has asserted that the sounds proceeded from a rookery in the adjoining wood, aided by the braying of the turf-man’s donkey.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841 by Various
The different depths of the ocean, the obstructions of islands, and continents, clouds and sunshine, and a great many other agencies, combine to give this tortuosity and seeming irregularity to the currents.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes
In an unwise moment we begged the draper's wife to honor us with a visit and explain the obliquities of the kitchen range and the tortuosities of the sink-spout to Miss Grieve.
From Penelope's Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Luedde found further that in syphilitics there were tortuosities, irregularities, minute aneurysmal dilatations and even obliterations of capillaries.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
It would be tedious to detail the vacillations, the obscurities, and the tortuosities of Lord Ellenborough's successive communications to his two Generals in Afghanistan.
From The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 by Archibald Forbes
They arrayed forth sophistical arguments without the wit of Sophists, and scholastic tortuosities minus the niceties of the Schoolmen.
From Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
To complete our misfortune, we all at once heard before us deafening cries and shouts, indicating that along the tortuosities of the lane in which we were horsemen and carts were about to meet us.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Evariste Regis Huc
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