tortuousness

tortuous | American Dictionary

tortuous
adjective
us/ˈtɔr·tʃu·əs/
full of twists and turns; not straight or direct:
His so-called shortcut turned out to be tortuous and slow.

Examples of tortuous

tortuous
Indentations in the repaired region leave a somewhat tortuous lumen.
After opening the pleura, large tortuous venous vessels as thick as a finger were seen.
However, as a rule, their collective literary projects became long and tortuous processes.
The stenosis was tortuous, with a length of 3 cm and a minimal diameter of 4.5 mm.
Whilst he provides interesting examples from the past and present to support his views, the argument is often lost in the tortuous, legally interpretative language.
In addition to ending the tortuous uncertainty, these documents were intended to help the next of kin obtain legal benefits such as pension.
The colonial authorities never discovered the tortuous path to the camp.
The case study has explored the long and tortuous process of reform illustrating the ephemeral nature of policy windows.
By contrast, the neovasculature is immature, leaky and tortuous.
Torrego has also done a great service in presenting and disentangling the tortuous web of empirical factors that influence this phenomenon.
A good case in point rests with the tortuous move towards revamping the regulatory framework governing securities markets.
Typically, there is an increase in microvessel density and in the number of dilated large tortuous vessels in glioblastoma tumour biopsies.
The more tortuous the deceit, the more the spy becomes necessary to unpick its complexity.
The tortuous stenosis is 3 cm long with a minimal diameter of 4.5 mm.
Consequently, this section must follow a somewhat tortuous two-step path.
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