Intort

Quick meaning: Intort is a verb meaning To twist in and out; to twine; to wreathe, wind, or wring.

Meaning

To twist in and out; to twine; to wreathe, wind, or wring.

More Meanings

1. (medicine, ophthalmology) To twist inwards.

Example Sentences

With reverend hand the king presents the gold, / Which round th′ intorted horns the gilder roll′d, / So wrought, as Pallas might with pride behold.

For the right labyrinth, however, both vertical semicircular canals produce clockwise slow phases (ipsilateral eye intorts, contralateral eye extorts).

Figure 18.12. The needles are withdrawn from the sclera, and the sutures are pulled to advance the anterior tendon laterally, while the eye is intorted by rotating it with the large hook.

These conditions are reversed after every hemicycle, i.e. the previously higher intorted eye is then lowered and extorted, and the previously lowered extorted eye becomes higher and intorted (Fig. 3.7).

Word Forms

• intorts
• intorting
• intorted

Synonyms for intort

Depending on context, synonyms include contort, writhe.

Antonyms for intort

Common opposites include extort.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include twist, entwist, intwist, entwine, interwind, intertwist.

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