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the action of coiling or twisting or winding together

the action of coiling or twisting or winding together

An irregular, tortuous folding of an organ or part; as, the convolutions of the intestines; the cerebral convolutions. See Brain.

A colling or winding together, as of a thing rolled upon itself.

Convolution, gyrus.

One of the prominent rounded elevations on the surface of the brain, bounded by the fissures or sulci; see gyrus.

Tortuous winding of an organ.

A twisting: a fold.

State of being rolled together; a fold or twist.

The act of convolving; a turn; fold; especially, one of the folds of the brain.

The act of convolving; the state of being convolved; a winding; a fold; a winding motion.

The act of rolling or winding, as a thing on itself or one thing on another; a winding or twisting.

A coiling or twisting, as of the brain, the intestine.

The rolling of any thing upon itself.

The elevated part of the brain-surface more or less marked off by fissures.

The process of winding spirally or irregularly.

A coil of intestine, also a raised portion of similar appearance on the surface of the brain.

The phase or condition of a nucleus in indirect or karyokinetic division in which the nuclear fibrils become sharply defined, twisted, and convoluted, so as to give somewhat the appearance of an irregularly wound ball of twine.

n. Act of rolling or winding together, or one thing on another; —state of being rolled or wound together; —a winding motion.

The act of rolling any thing upon itself; the fate of rolling together in company.