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tortuous    音标拼音: [t'ɔrtʃəwəs]
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tortuous
adj 1: highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious;
"the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for
holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal
language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too
involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by
labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we
weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures";
"tortuous negotiations lasting for months" [synonym:
{Byzantine}, {convoluted}, {involved}, {knotty},
{tangled}, {tortuous}]
2: marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the
mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to
steer the car down a twisty track" [synonym: {tortuous},
{twisting}, {twisty}, {winding}, {voluminous}]
3: not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning"

Tortuous \Tor"tu*ous\, a. [OE. tortuos, L. tortuosus, fr. tortus
a twisting, winding, fr. torquere, tortum, to twist: cf. F.
tortueux. See {Torture}.]
1. Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding;
as, a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
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The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the
side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick.
--Macaulay.
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2. Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous;
deceitful.
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That course became somewhat lesstortuous, when the
battle of the Boyne had cowed the spirit of the
Jakobites. --Macaulay.
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3. Injurious: tortious. [Obs.]
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4. (Astrol.) Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the
zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most
rapidly and obliquely. [Obs.] --Skeat.
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Infortunate ascendent tortuous. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster] --{Tor"tu*ous*ly}, adv. --
{Tor"tu*ous*ness}, n.
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139 Moby Thesaurus words for "tortuous":
Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambagious, ambiguous,
anamorphous, anfractuous, askew, asymmetric, bedizened, bent,
big-sounding, billowing, billowy, bowed, circuitous,
circumlocutory, cockeyed, complicated, contorted, convoluted,
convolutional, cranky, crazy, crooked, crumpled, crunched, curled,
curling, curvaceous, curvate, curvated, curve, curved, curvesome,
curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, curving, curvy, deceptive,
declamatory, deviative, devious, distorted, elevated, euphuistic,
flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, flexuose, flexuous,
fulsome, garish, gaudy, geosynclinal, grandiloquent, grandiose,
grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding,
highfalutin, incurvate, incurvated, incurved, incurving, indirect,
inkhorn, intricate, involute, involuted, involutional, involved,
irregular, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lopsided, lurid,
magniloquent, mazy, meandering, meandrous, meretricious,
misleading, nonsymmetric, one-sided, orotund, ostentatious,
overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pedantic,
pompous, pretentious, recurvate, recurvated, recurved, recurving,
rhetorical, rivose, rivulose, roundabout, ruffled, sensational,
sensationalistic, sententious, serpentine, showy, sinuate, sinuose,
sinuous, snaky, sonorous, sprung, stilted, tall, torsional,
tortile, tricky, turning, twisted, twisting, twisty, undulant,
unstraightforward, unsymmetric, wandering, warped, wavy, whorled,
winding, wreathlike, wreathy, zigzag


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  • What does a tortuous aorta mean? how is it treated?
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    Tortuous means they are very curvy - kinda like those straws that swirl around Hypotonic means they don't contract and move the urine down themselves very well All this can mean the urine may not have the best route from kidney to bladder, and this can lead to urine backing up into the kidneys which can cause problems
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    Aorta: A tortuous aorta may have no symptoms If there are symptoms they generally relate to obstructed blood flow related to the tortuosity The symptom would depend on what wasn't getting good flow or perhaps some compression caused in adjacent organ by the tortuosity
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    what is a tortuous esophagus?: Twisted and narrowed: It can be twisted and curved throughout the ches
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    Twisty: Tortuous simply implies that the aorta, which is usually runs a straight back from the upper chest through the belly, makes a lot of twists and turns Tortuosity of the aorta, by itself, has few implications in health or disease
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  • what causes a tortuous aorta? - HealthTap
    Tortuous aorta: Usually implies atherosclerotic or other degenerative vascular disease Tortuous aorta
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    Tortuous aorta: Usually implies atherosclerotic or other degenerative vascular disease Tortuous aorta
  • What does a tortuous abdominal aortic aneurysm mean?
    With twists bends: The term "tortuous" simply means: full of twists, turns and bends In medicine we use this to describe the pathway of veins or arteries When either veins or arteries "grow" to become varicose veins or aneurysms, not only do they grow in diameter, but also in length





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