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  • noun Plural form of tangle.

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Examples

  • It also sticks to another key feature of the disease: twisted protein "tangles" in the brain.

    New method of scanning brain could help diagnose Alzheimer's 2006

  • Langdon again tangles with codes and secret societies – this time, in a plot that unfolds over a 12-hour period.

    2009 August 16 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

  • Large trees are about us, and from their branches hang gray filaments of moss, while great creepers, like monstrous serpents, curl around the trunks and writhe in tangles through the air.

    CHAPTER XVIII 2010

  • Langdon again tangles with codes and secret societies – this time, in a plot that unfolds over a 12-hour period.

    2009 August « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

  • Earlier work has linked the presence of plaques and protein tangles within the brain to Alzheimer.

    Self-Discipline May Reduce Alzheimer’s Risk | Impact Lab 2007

  • Large trees are about us, and from their branches hang gray filaments of moss, while great creepers, like monstrous serpents, curl around the trunks and writhe in tangles through the air.

    Chapter XVIII 1906

  • I don't have a car so I have to take the jeep whenever I go out which causes all the freakin 'tangles. .jeepney + windy weather = super duper tangled hair!

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • What they found were these so-called tangles in the brains of people who have early signs of the disease.

    CNN Transcript Dec 21, 2006 2006

  • The current formal criteria for diagnosing Alzheimer's require steadily progressing memory loss and an inability to carry out day-to-day activities, like dressing or bathing - along with a pathologist's report of plaque and another abnormality, known as tangles, in the brain after death.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • The current formal criteria for diagnosing Alzheimer's require steadily progressing memory loss and an inability to carry out day-to-day activities, like dressing or bathing - along with a pathologist's report of plaque and another abnormality, known as tangles, in the brain after death.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

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