tortuosity

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In involutionary sclerosis there is a gradual thickening and tortuosity of the vessel, which although it may be greater than in the hyperpietic cases, yet is never so dangerous to life.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall

More especially it may now be declared that Professor Teufelsdroeckh’s acquirements, patience of research, philosophic, and even poetic vigor, are here made indisputably manifest; and unhappily no less his prolixity and tortuosity and manifold inaptitude….

From Essays Æsthetical by Calvert, George H. (George Henry)

How little of the tortuosity of metaphysics is here;—but what grand efficacity of super-ethics!

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth

This naturally suggests the ideas of curvature and tortuosity, which are fully dealt with mathematically, before the notion of velocity is introduced.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew

No description could exaggerate the tortuosity of the Linggi or the abruptness of its windings.

From The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)