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In literature, "convoluted" is frequently employed to evoke an image of intricacy and entanglement, whether describing physical structures or abstract processes. The term vividly captures the sense of layered complexity, as seen when it illustrates the brain's deep folds and twisted surfaces [1][2] or the spirally coiled forms of shells and anatomical passages [3][4]. It also operates metaphorically to characterize narratives or historical developments that seem intentionally or naturally tangled and difficult to decipher [5][6]. Thus, "convoluted" functions both as a precise descriptor of elaborate physical shapes and as a symbol of the intricate, sometimes labyrinthine, progression of events or ideas.
  1. The cerebrum has a peculiar convoluted appearance, its deep folds being separated by fissures, some of them nearly an inch in depth.
    — from A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell
  2. The brain in all Carnivora is large and well convoluted.
    — from Mammalia by Frank E. (Frank Evers) Beddard
  3. Abdomen with numerous prominent, spirally convoluted ribs, and spiral rows of pores between them.
    — from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; IndexReport on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel
  4. Thus the large intestine encircles, in the form of a horseshoe, the convoluted mass of small intestines.
    — from A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell
  5. They were the logical and inescapable conclusion of a long and convoluted historical process.
    — from Terrorists and Freedom Fighters by Samuel Vaknin
  6. But who can foresee the march of events as they trickle through the convoluted waterways of an impenetrable thicket?
    — from Under One Flag by Richard Marsh

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