NOUN
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a tortuous and twisted shape or position
they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs
the acrobat performed incredible contortions
How To Use tortuosity In A Sentence
- Furthermore, when the data for collagen gels were adjusted for area fraction and tortuosity in tumors, the permeability was higher in tumors than in gels of comparable concentration.
- Multiple foci of ectatic sinusoids were present in the lobules, and the hepatic arterial branches showed marked angiomatous dilation and tortuosity with intimal hyperplasia in the portal areas.
- We have previously demonstrated that decreases in skin elasticity, accompanied by increases in the tortuosity of elastic fibers, are important early events in wrinkle formation.
- Our approach was to describe diffusion in the cell-substratum gap by lumping porosity and tortuosity as an ‘effective diffusion co-efficient.’
- The tortuosity of the porous network is rationalized in terms of the ultrastructure known from electron microscopy.
- Atheroma is a discrete plaque containing lipid deposits that arises in the intima of an artery and has a predilection for areas of tortuosity and turbulence of blood flow.
- The tortuosity, defined as the square root of the ratio of D f to D b, was 2.14 and moderate in magnitude.
- Thus the main diffusion hindrance for these molecules should be the tortuosity of the diffusion path.
- Furthermore, theoretical correction of gel diffusion data for the effects of in vivo tortuosity yielded good agreement with in vivo measurements in tumors of comparable collagen concentration.
- Atheroma is a discrete plaque containing lipid deposits that arises in the intima of an artery and has a predilection for areas of tortuosity and turbulence of blood flow.