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nouna structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loopstype of:
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nounornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center
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adjectivein the shape of a coil
Definition that contains volute
- epididymis a convoluted tubule in each testis; carries sperm to vas deferens
- brain coral massive reef-building coral having a convoluted and furrowed surface
- renal cortex the cortex of the kidney containing the glomeruli and the convoluted tubules
- seminiferous tubule any of the numerous long convoluted tubules in the testis which are the sites where spermatozoa mature
- helvella sulcata a helvella with an irregularly convoluted cap that is dark brown when young and becomes dull grey with age; the lower surface of the cap is smooth and pale grey; the stalk is thick and deeply fluted
- vasa efferentia the several highly convoluted tubules that lead from the rete testis to the vas deferens and form the head of the epididymis
- mandelbrot set a set of complex numbers that has a highly convoluted fractal boundary when plotted; the set of all points in the complex plane that are bounded under a certain mathematical iteration