* Mucosa-arranged into convoluted folds, significantly increasing surface area

Their inconspicuous tentacles originate from the corners of the mouth, running in convoluted grooves and spreading out over the inner surface of the lobes ( rather than trailing far behind, as in the Cydippida ).

He is one of many, whose task is to prevent stories from becoming irretrievably convoluted and to cut away weeds that grow on the Ocean's surface.

When left unmowed, it forms a humpy convoluted surface which is sometimes used in oriental landscapes ( see picture on Zoysia page ).

The sagas they created were elaborate and convoluted ( and still exist in partial manuscripts ) and provided them with an obsessive interest during childhood and early adolescence, which prepared them for their literary vocations in adulthood.

Frequent urination is due to the increased loss of water that has not been retained from the body as a result of a concomitant relationship with sodium loss from the convoluted tubule.

Faced with growing competition from Marmite, from 1928 to 1935 the product was renamed as " Parwill " to make use of the advertising slogan " Marmite but Parwill ", a convoluted pun on the new name and that of its competitor ; " If Ma might ... then Pa will.

When released, ADH binds to V2 G-protein coupled receptors within the distal convoluted tubules, increasing cyclic AMP, which couples with protein kinase A, stimulating translocation of the aquaporin 2 channel stored in the cytoplasm of the distal convoluted tubules and collecting ducts into the apical membrane.

It seems paradoxical to treat an extreme diuresis with a diuretic, but the thiazide diuretics will decrease distal convoluted tubule reabsorption of sodium and water, thereby causing diuresis.

Richler commented, " The stories are convoluted, difficult to follow and crammed with far too much text.

Masanobu Fukuoka as part of his early experiments on his family farm in Japan experimented with no-pruning methods, noting that he ended up killing many fruit trees by simply letting them go which resulted in convoluted and tangled, and thus unhealthy, branch patterns.

On the northeastern border, France was not restored to its 1792 borders, but a new border was established to put an end to the convoluted nature of the border, with all its enclaves and exclaves.

Ekwensu is an Igbo deity with a convoluted modern identity.

The ancient Igbo descriptions of Ekwensu could be seen as a deity with a convoluted modern identity.

While its eastern border is fairly regular with the river's edge, the rest of its municipal border, with Peoria, is quite irregular and convoluted.

While the Pacific Ocean command structure was convoluted, operations were " designed to sequence the SWPA's operations with POA's forces across the central Pacific .... The main purpose of sequencing is to arrange objectives / tasks in such a progression that collectively they lead to the accomplishment of the assigned ultimate objective in the shortest time possible and with the least loss of personnel and materiel.

On heavily convoluted racetracks, allowing the line segment representing a move to cross the boundary twice ( with start and end points inside the track ), some unreasonable shortcuts may be allowed.

The coastline is convoluted, with many islands and fjords, several of which contain tidewater glaciers.

Stresses within the " quenched " magma cause fragmentation into five dominant pyroclast shape-types: ( 1 ) blocky and equant ; ( 2 ) vesicular and irregular with smooth surfaces ; ( 3 ) moss-like and convoluted ; ( 4 ) spherical or drop-like ; and ( 5 ) plate-like.

As with the stern ornamentation, the purpose of the figurehead was often to indicate the name of the ship in a non-literate society ( albeit in a sometimes very convoluted manner ); and always, in the case of naval ships, to demonstrate the wealth and might of the owner.

The vasa recta are collecting capillaries intertwined with the convoluted tubules through the interstitial space, in which the reabsorbed substances will also enter.

* Proximal convoluted tubule ( lies in cortex and lined by simple cuboidal epithelium with brushed borders which help to increase the area of absorption greatly.

In the preamble, the emperor makes a point that he has avoided convoluted expressions and " lofty Atticisms " on purpose, so as to make everything " plain as the beaten track of common, everyday speech " for his son and those high officials with whom he might later choose to share the work.

It is a historically important genus with a convoluted taxonomy that has been all but abandoned by modern dinosaur paleontologists.

Her reports make use of convoluted puns in the execution chamber, and interviews with stereotypical stock characters in American culture ( including Steve Coogan as dimwitted Southerner Alvin Holler ).

Elephant brains also show a similar complexity to dolphin brains, and are also more convoluted than that of humans, and with a cortex " thicker than that of cetaceans ".

In Taker culture, the otherwise automatic process of learning is hindered and convoluted by the institution of formal education, which largely forces students to study topics that they do not apply outside of the classroom and that they therefore largely forget once the information is no longer needed to pass tests or similar evaluations.

These are very similar in appearance to the bipinnaria larvae of starfishes, with convoluted bands of cilia running around the body.

The convoluted sheets can be combined to attain certain cushioning effects mechanically rather than chemically.

Given the complexity of the calculations involved and the convoluted structure that a convertible bond can have, an arbitrageur often relies on sophisticated quantitative models in order to identify bonds that are trading cheap versus their theoretical value.

Daedalus, in the form of " daedalean ", can be an adjective meaning " complicated " or " convoluted ".

From an evolutionary perspective, a convoluted structure such as the inverted retina can generally come about as a consequence of two alternative processes ; ( a ) an advantageous " good " compromise between competing functional limitations, or ( b ) as a historical maladaptive relic of the convoluted path of organ evolution and transformation.

Note the fact that the set of points mapped into any hyperplane can be quite convoluted as a result, allowing much more complex discrimination between sets which are not convex at all in the original space.

* Distal convoluted tubule: Once leaving the loop of Henle the thick ascending limb can optionally reabsorb and re increase the concentration in the nephrons .< ref > Reabsorbing and increasing the concentration is done by optionally absorbing Potassium ( K < sup >+</ sup >) and Hydrogen ( H < sup >+</ sup >) anions, while releasing water and the continued pumping out of Calcium ( Ca < sup >+</ sup >) and salt ( Na < sup >+</ sup > and Chlorine Cl < sup >-</ sup > ions ).

Autonomy in Space does not relate to the socio-political definitions, here we are talking about a device that can make basic or convoluted decisions based on LOGIC ( in an electronic usage )-see X37b Military Space Plane for an example

The proximal tubule as a part of the nephron can be divided into an initial convoluted portion and a following straight ( descending ) portion.

He can also be quite resourceful-he appears to support himself by selling handmade wooden buggies and pilfering food from sympathetic local shops, or convoluted schemes to create sudden crowds in order to celebrate his birthday on October 25 ( which also happens to be Maurice Dodd's Birthday ).

The lineage of tie-in works can be quite convoluted.

Game reviewers Hartley and Patricia Lesser complimented the game in their " The Role of Computers " column in Dragon # 124 ( 1987 ), calling it " an outrageous journey through red tape that puts you directly in the middle of a bureaucratic muddle so convoluted that you can ’ t help but laugh.

These colonies can be cerebriform, convoluted, or smooth.

Since the generators of supersymmetry ( SUSY ) are convoluted with the Poincaré group to form a super-Poincaré algebra, it can be seen that supergravity follows naturally from supersymmetry.

" However, some reviewers did criticise it for " convoluted " plots and " dangling details ", as well as inconsistent dialogue that " can veer from wittily wicked to non-sequitur " and minor characters that " drift in and out of scenes ".

Histologically, cells of the DCT can be differentiated from cells of the proximal convoluted tubule:

There are several reasons for this: firstly, sneakernets can provide very high security ( and possibly more importantly, they are perceived to be secure ); secondly, the volumes of data concerned are often extremely high ; and thirdly, setting up secure network links between the client business and the analytics team's facilities is often either impossible or an extremely convoluted process.

Methods are often convoluted and a slight mis-step in a procedure can often mean disaster for the analysis ( colloid formation in precipitation gravimetry, for example ).

One of the pronounced signs can be observed in the extremities in particular, as the writhing, convoluted movement of the digits.

On the other hand, systematic names can be so convoluted and difficult to parse that their trivial names are preferred.

Note that added exceptions can become recursive and often convoluted.

Ukiko then embarks on a convoluted trail, given to her by Akemi, so she can forge a new identity and life for herself.

Vasovasostomy can be performed in the convoluted or straight portion of the vas deferens.

In another definition, chemoselectivity refers to the selective reactivity of one functional group in the presence of others ; often this process in convoluted and protecting groups are used to ensure that this outcome can be attained.