intort

Verb

intort (third-person singular simple present intorts, present participle intorting, simple past and past participle intorted)

1. To twist in and out; to twine; to wreathe, wind, or wring.
   • 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.1726, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, The Odyssey of Homer, published 2008, page 44
2. To twist inwards.
   • If we tilt the head to the right, the right eye will intort and the left eye will extort. […] So, if the right eye intorts, it means the superiors in that eye (RSR and RSO) work and if the left eye extorts it means the inferiors of that eye (LIO and LIR) work.2002, Sunita Agarwal, Athiya Agarwal, David J. Apple, Textbook of Ophthalmology, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, India, psge 338
   • For the right labyrinth, however, both vertical semicircular canals produce clockwise slow phases (ipsilateral eye intorts, contralateral eye extorts).2003, Thomas Brandt, Vertigo: Its Multisensory Syndromes, page 194

   Synonyms:

   contort, writhe