(p. pr. & a.) Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants.
(n.) That which sheathes.
(n.) The casing or covering of a ship's bottom and sides; the materials for such covering; as, copper sheathing.
(n.) The first covering of boards on the outside wall of a frame house or on a timber roof; also, the material used for covering; ceiling boards in general.
Example Sentences:
(1) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
(2) Electron microscopic observations of the masseter nerve in the aged cats revealed a disruption of the myelin sheaths and a pronounced increase in collagen fibers in the endoneurium and perineurium.
(3) The authors propose three regular procedures with which they are experienced: repair with a large retromuscular nonabsorbable synthetic tulle prosthesis for extensive epigastric eventrations, fillup aponeuroplasty using the sheath of the rectus abdominis associated with a premuscular patch in case of diastasis or of multiple superimposed orifices and suture associated with a small retromuscular auxiliary patch to treat small incisional hernias.
(4) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.
(5) Thirteen soft tissue sarcomas with ultrastructural evidence of nerve sheath differentiation were investigated by immunohistochemistry.
(6) This cell population gives rise initially to oligodendrocytes and then to type-2 astrocytes, both of which apparently collaborate in sheathing axons in the CNS.
(7) Rabbit antirat T-cell serum (ALS(T)) reacted selectively with the surfaces of lymphocytes in the paracortex of lymph node and in the periarteriolar sheath of spleen, and with thymocytes.
(8) After properly fixing the vas deferens with a ring clamp, the surgeon pierces the scrotal skin, vas sheath, and vas deferens in the midline with a curved dissecting clamp held at a 45 degree angle from horizontal.
(9) We immunohistochemically examined the expression of Schwann cell-related markers, nerve growth factor (NGF) receptor, S-100 alpha- and beta-proteins, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), and galactocerebroside (gal C) in 5 malignant schwannomas, 21 benign peripheral nerve sheath tumors, and 4 apparently normal sural nerves.
(10) The transversalis fascia of the floor of the femoral canal turns down to form the medial wall of the venous compartment of the femoral sheath, and has the support of the curved edge of the lacunar ligament which effectively bars the femoral canal from entering the thigh.
(11) Unique domains of the retinal interphotoreceptor matrix (IPM), termed cone matrix sheaths, are composed largely of chondroitin 6-sulfate proteoglycan in most higher mammalian species.
(12) 2ME treatment caused partial solubilization of the sheaths (45% as determined by amino acid analysis), which could be further improved by combining 2ME with SDS.
(13) The 6.8F ultrasound balloon catheter was placed percutaneously in the right femoral artery through a 9F sheath.
(14) The isolated outer sheath was observed as a triple-layered, closed vesicle carrying a polygonal array by electron microscopy.
(15) These data show that the 515 nm absorbance change is not limited to small closed vesicles like grana, but in the presence of suitable electron donors single lamellae of bundle sheath chloroplasts can also be active.
(16) An outer sheath was isolated from Treponema phagedenis biotype Reiter by our previously developed method (Masuda, K., and Kawata, T. 1982.
(17) Seven tumours were predominantly of blue and spindle-cell, fascicular type, resembling malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour and at times monophasic synovial sarcoma.
(18) Several additional groups of muscle cells of more limited mass and spatial distribution include the vulval muscles of hermaphrodites, the male sex muscles, the anal-intestinal muscles, and the gonadal sheath of the hermaphrodite.
(19) The notochord, which is composed of a stack of flat cells surrounded by a connective tissue sheath, elongates dramatically and begins straightening between stages 21 and 25.
(20) Under fluoroscopic control a lower polar calix was punctured with 18 G sheathed needle; a guide wire was introduced through the sheet.
Stripper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
Example Sentences:
(1) Surgical removal was avoided without complications by detaching it with a ring stripper.
(2) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
(3) So far the Republican primary has spoiled us, from Rick Perry's "oops" to corporate asset-stripper Mitt Romney's admission that he liked firing people, delivered just before he was snapped apparently receiving a sit-down shoe-shine from an underling – not a good look for a would-be man of the people.
(4) "I started chanting when I was living on Hollywood Boulevard, working as a stripper.
(5) So, in Closer, 2004's sexually charged chamber piece in which four beautiful people (Portman, Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Clive Owen) fall in and out of love and lust, she asked Nichols, the director, to remove scenes in which her character - a pink-haired stripper - gets her kit off.
(6) Paper Gods comes wrapped in a collage that includes the Patrick Nagel lips from the Rio sleeve , cut-outs of a sumo wrestler, a champagne glass and a silhouette of a stripper to represent the Girls on Film video, and a tiger (albeit a non-ragged one).
(7) The fascia stripper, therefore, needs to be directed along an imaginary line from the lateral tibial condyle to the iliac crest to obtain the strongest fascia lata and avoid transecting the longitudinal fibers.
(8) Its most enthusiastic supporter was the coup plotter James Goldsmith, one of the most unscrupulous asset strippers of that time.
(9) There is described an easy and rapid technique using the Mayo Vein Stripper to facilitate safe harvesting of the long saphenous vein for vascular reconstruction.
(10) John Worboys, a 51-year-old former stripper from Rotherhithe, south-east London, raped at least one of his passengers and sexually assaulted seven others.
(11) No, not Ed Miliband's latest Labour party slogan, but the motto of Johnny Anglais , fitness expert and stripper extraordinaire; I found it on his website, just beneath what seems to be his personal crest.
(12) Wearing a stripper’s bikini and a see-through plastic mac, Zhora is murdered in a soft-porn, slow-motion spectacle, played out to sad music; but is sadness for her what we feel?
(13) Since the incident in Colombia, there have been several media reports of similar secret service misconduct in the past, including allegations that officers hired strippers and prostitutes during a presidential trip to El Salvador last year.
(14) "You have stated that you will continue to advocate the morality and acceptability of your involvement in the adult industry and argue that it should not be inappropriate for a teacher to work as a stripper or in pornographic films.
(15) I met them, again, at the filming of another Baillie Walsh video for Be Thankful for What You've Got , which consisted of a stripper doing her act while miming the song in Raymond's Revue Bar in Soho, London.
(16) If one attempts to obtain fascia lata by directing a fascia stripper along an imaginary line directed from the head of the fibula to the anterior iliac spine, as suggested in most textbooks, an inadequate specimen may be obtained.
(17) Barbara Ellen is an Observer columnist Teacher Benedict Garrett was suspended in July 2010, after being discovered working as a stripper, naked butler and porn actor.
(18) Inflow was restored by performing a graft limb thrombectomy using a Fogarty balloon catheter and simultaneously employing an endarterectomy ring stripper to dislodge tenaciously adherent fibrinous material and thrombotic plug.
(19) You know how many times I’d get a call from girlfriends saying, ‘I just got kicked out of a camp, come pick me up?’” In the US press, the gender imbalance in Williston initially attracted as much attention as the population boom, with apocryphal tales of strippers earning $2,500 a night in tips (though the $500 per night reputed to be more accurate is nothing to sniff at).
(20) It comes as no surprise then, that when the shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, turned up to join the bus in North Warwickshire on a recent day in the campaign – bearing cupcakes, of course – he was greeted with the whoops and laughter normally reserved for a stripper.