tangles

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Accumulation of tau "tangles" is believed to be closely associated with cognitive decline. Source: Internet

During daylight hours the animals sleep in groups in branch tangles, or curled up on a branch with their heads between their legs. Source: Internet

Associations have also been found between iron and neurofibrillary tangles – abnormal accumulations of a protein called tau that collect inside neurons. Source: Internet

Later these became known as amyloid plaques and tau tangles, key hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease. Source: Internet

Moby Dick smashes the three boats that seek him into splinters and tangles their lines. Source: Internet

Bald eagle chicks are endearing, but not, in any traditional sense, cute: Their unwieldy, disproportionate wings and legs wind up contorting into all kinds of crazy tangles when they lie around the nest. Source: Internet