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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 4 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANFRACTUOSITY (from
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Lat. anfractuosus, winding)
, twisting and turning, circuitousness; a word usually employed in the plural to denote winding channels such as occur in the depths of the sea, mountains, or the fissures (
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sulci) separating the convolutions of the brain, or, by analogy, in the mind .

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