HTH

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Hi Paula,

Qué inusual palabra.

anfractuous (n): sinuous or circuitous
anfractuosity exists as an adjective but I'd be reluctent to make a plural noun of it.

¿Podría provenir de "La Piel Fría"? No me suena la frase, pero me recrea completamente el ambiente...

Suerte y sonrisas,

Álvaro :O) :O)


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Perdón, tanto tenía la idea de "piel fría" en mente que me fui...
scaly, stone-like skin/hide

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aghhh reluctant..sry agn!

...between the convolutions of its calloused, scaly skin


"anfractuosities" does in fact exist, in anatomy, to denote the convolutions of the brain, and appears in that context in 2 of the following links:

The fruits are flattened like a cheese but each rib makes a deep convolution. The orange flesh is very flavoured, sweet , thick, and firm. ...
www.kokopelli-seed-foundation.com/actu/new_news.cgi?id_news... - 13k - Cached - Similar pages

Heuristic England: Visitors GuidesI then asked again for a message and saw an egg in which were many many tiny convolutions of some flesh-like substance which would form something. ...
englishheretic.blogspot.com/2007/05/visitors-guides.html - 55k - Cached - Similar pages

SOUL MADE FLESH: THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR AND THE MAPPING OF THE MIND ...The fullness of the convolutions and narrowness of the sulci represent an ... and Lower has been interleaved in Carl Zimmer's book titled, Soul Made Flesh. ...
brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/127/10/2373 - Similar pages

DietThe flesh eaters such as lions, tigers, cats and dogs. ... caused by poisons from the putrefying flesh wastes accumulating in the convolutions of the colon. ...
ben-adamah.com/diet.htm - 24k - Cached - Similar pages

Baiame and Man"I must clothe myself in flesh that is recognizably that of both man and god," ... cartilege and flesh, and the convolutions of the substance of the brain, ...
www.astronomy.pomona.edu/archeo/Other student web sites/Ale... - 6k -


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NB, I was tempted to use "anfractuosities" itself, but decided that this would be too obscure for the English audience.

However, if the text commonly uses such unusual vocabulary - perhaps for an exotic effect, or to make some other point - then I would use it. Especially if the word is as unusual in the source language as it is in the target language.



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ERROR: Instead of "and appears", it should read "whch appears".



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Another possible reason to use "anfractuosities" might be if the text is being deliberately pompous, perhaps for an ironic or comic effect...