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Definition of Anfractuosities
1. anfractuosity [n] - See also: anfractuosity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anfractuosities
Literary usage of Anfractuosities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Summary of the Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by College of Physicians of Philadelphia (1849)
"... the larger anfractuosities; pia mater highly injected over whole of convex
surface of brain, the injection extending to the smallest ramifications of ..."
2. Statement Presented on Behalf of Chile in Reply to the Argentine Report by Chile (1902)
"No other proceeding is conceivable in the case of ground of such variety and full
of anfractuosities wherein there is great difficulty in measuring and ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1844)
"... of the ventricles, at the bottom of the anfractuosities ; the longest continue
further on side by side to the summit of the ..."
4. A Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Chest by William Stokes (1837)
"... and hence we commonly find that while cavities or anfractuosities exist
superiorly, the signs of bronchitis alone are to be observed below; ..."
5. A System of phrenology by George Combe (1860)
"... and less closely packed together than formerly, the anfractuosities or furrows
between them become enlarged. The weight of the adult brain, ..."
6. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery edited by Lunsford Pitts Yandell, Theodore Stout Bell (1851)
"had arrived at the period of ulceration with numerous anfractuosities in the
clavicular and subclavicular regions; was accompanied by emaciation, cough, ..."
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