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tortuosity

noun as in crookedness

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The team analyzed the width and tortuosity of retinal arteries and veins to develop prediction models for stroke, heart attack, and death from circulatory disease.

We had twenty miles to go, "as the birds fly," but the tortuosity of the channels rendered our course fully a third longer.

These changes give rise to marked tortuosity of the vessels.

There is no tortuosity of thought to pardon or to forget; it is one unbroken interwoven strain of music, of imagery, of sentiment.

I allude to the enormous, almost preternatural magnitude of the wild-grape vine, and its tortuosity.

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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tortuosity, such as: asymmetry, sinuosity, sinuousness, tortuousness, unevenness, and curvity.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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