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sigmoid

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Adjective, Noun
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sig=moid

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective sigmoid has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

sigmoida. [Gr. ; sigma + e'i^dos form, likeness: cf. F. sigmoïde.].
     Curved in two directions, like the letter S, or the Greek 1913 Webster]
Sigmoid flexure (Anat.), the last curve of the colon before it terminates in the rectum. See Illust. under Digestive. -- Sigmoid valves. (Anat.) See Semilunar valves, under Semilunar.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sigmoid, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 curved like the uncial sigma; crescent-shaped.
2 S-shaped.
--n. (in full sigmoid flexure) Anat. the curved part of the intestine between the colon and the rectum.

Etymology
Gk sigmoeides (as SIGMA)

THESAURUS

sigmoid

Cynthian, S-shaped, ambagious, anfractuous, bicorn, circuitous, circumlocutory, convolutional, corniform, crescent, crescent-shaped, crescentic, crescentiform, crescentlike, falcate, falciform, flexuose, flexuous, horn-shaped, horned, involute, involuted, involutional, labyrinthine, lunar, lunate, luniform, lunular, mazy, meandering, meandrous, menisciform, meniscoid, moon-shaped, moonlike, rivose, rivulose, roundabout, ruffled, semicircular, semilunar, serpentine, sickle-like, sickle-shaped, sinuate, sinuose, sinuous, snaky, torsional, tortile, tortuous, turning, twisting, twisty, two-horned, whorled, winding, wreathlike, wreathy

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sigmoid

Convolution

N convolution, winding, convolution, involution, circumvolution, wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity, sinuosity, sinuation, meandering, circuit, circumbendibus, twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages, torsion, inosculation, reticulation, rivulation, roughness, coil, roll, curl, buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle, tendril, scollop, scallop, escalop, kink, ammonite, snakestone, serpent, eel, maze, labyrinth, knot, convoluted, winding, twisted, tortile, tortive, wavy, undated, undulatory, circling, snaky, snake-like, serpentine, serpent, anguill, vermiform, vermicular, mazy, tortuous, sinuous, flexuous, anfractuous, reclivate, rivulose, scolecoid, sigmoid, sigmoidal, spiriferous, spiroid, involved, intricate, complicated, perplexed, labyrinth, labyrinthic, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, peristaltic, daedalian, kinky, knotted, wreathy, frizzly, crepe, buckled, raveled, spiral, coiled, helical, cochleate, cochleous, screw-shaped, turbinated, turbiniform, in and out, round and round, a can of worms, Gordian knot.

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