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What does anfractuosity mean?

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  1. A winding channel or crevice, such as occur in the depths of the sea or in mountains.
  2. One of the fissures (sulci) separating the convolutions of the brain, or, by analogy, in the mind.
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This one was found by Florence Trentin in an anfractuosity of the reef.
Will it result in a facile anti-reductionist anfractuosity so skilfully punctuated way back by E.H. Carr in his What is History?
It is also possible to provide a cavity, an anfractuosity, or a modification of the surface condition at the end of the rod or needle, or laterally adjacent this end.
The great anfractuosity, called the fissure of Sylvius, divides the convolutions of the inferior surface into those of the anterior and those of the middle and posterior lobe.
The quarry is usually entered by an anfractuosity of the mountain.

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