tortuosity

How To Use tortuosity In A Sentence

• Interestingly, they report wind-rose plots indicating that MLCK inhibition substantially reduces cell motility by increasing the directional tortuosity of cell paths.
• Reflux that is associated with significant dilation of the ureter, pelvis and calyces, and ureteral tortuosity.
• This is caused by differences in pore size, the tortuosity of pore channels, and the differential velocity of fluid across pores caused by drag resulting from the roughness of pore surfaces.
• Bruits over the aortic area, when they are soft, have no significance; a very loud bruit may represent extensive atherosclerosis, extreme tortuosity of the aorta, or an aortic aneurysm.
• Objective: Varicose vein is a collective term which describes the distension , lengthening and tortuosity of veins.
• Late type I endoleaks occur when the repaired aorta decreases in size and tortuosity, which can cause proximal aortic neck dilatation and resultant loss of seal.
• Permeability changes, however, can merely be inferred, as pore throat sizes and tortuosity cannot be predicted from thermodynamics.
• The permeance is a composite quantity consisting of the diffusion coefficient, the partition coefficient, the membrane thickness, and the tortuosity of the diffusional path length.
• The tortuous course of the splenic artery is considered so variable that no two arteries are alike, but the tortuosity of the artery is absent in infants and children.
• When adjusted to account for in vivo tortuosity, diffusion coefficients in gels matched previous measurements in four human tumor xenografts with equivalent collagen concentrations.