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convoluted
/ˌkɑnvəˈlutəd/
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What does convoluted mean?
adjective
- Having numerous overlapping coils or folds; convolute.
- (figuratively) Complex, complicated, or intricate.
verb
- simple past and past participle of convolute
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In some cases the trachea is convoluted, like a French horn, and is deeply embedded in the sternum.
The Epeira works on the same principles as the Mollusc of the convoluted shell.
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The skull has a longer face and a nearly enclosed orbit, and the brain-case is fuller and more capacious, the internal cast of which shows that the brain was richly convoluted.
A great number of small hollow pedicles proceed from and form around the cribriform plate; as they move downwards, they project into distinct vesicles or cavities, smaller and more numerous behind, fewer in number and larger in front; and each of them not a simple cavity, but more or less convoluted, while the long walls of those cells are of gossamer thinness, and as porous as gauze.