tortuosity

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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 Semmes, Raphael

In the fundus are seen increased tortuosity of the retinal vessels and their terminal twigs with more or less bending of the vessels at their crossings.

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

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

It is not straight as in health, but is tortuous, because the overgrowth in the walls, which makes it thick, has also made it longer than normal, thus producing tortuosity.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

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 Jones, Henry, Sir