(a.) Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.
(a.) Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you look at a map of Britain resized according to house prices, London and the south-east form a massive blob, and every other region and nation are mere stringy offshoots, like a fried egg that is all yolk.
(2) In vitro dissolution studies showed that the capsules had a tendency to collapse into a stringy mass and to dissolve slowly.
(3) Police reportedly investigated the theory at the time after Lady Osborne, Aspinall’s mother – and chancellor George Osborne’s grandmother – allegedly told them: “The last I heard of him he was being fed to the tigers at my son’s zoo.” Aspinall reportedly responded when questioned: “My tigers are only fed the choicest cuts – do you really think they’re going to eat stringy old Lucky?” A week after the murder, Aspinall, who died in 2000, told ITV News: “I find it difficult to imagine him in Brazil or Haiti as a fugitive.
(4) The excretory pyelogram revealed that the right kidney was hydronephrosis, and a retrograde pyelogram showed stringy filling defects in the middle portion of the right ureter.
(5) Scanning electron micrographs of bronchial mucosa from DG-ventilated lungs showed tangling and matting of cilia with a granular and stringy material attached to most cilia; these changes were much less pronounced in HG-ventilated lungs.
(6) Eventually we went to the RAC Club and ate rather stringy beef and drank a bottle of red together, so he reneged on that as well.” 3.
(7) Scanning electron microscopy revealed that, in both types, a stringy substance interconnected the cells and connected the cells to glass surfaces, with amorphous flocklike materials present in the intercellular space.
(8) Keep handling to a minimum as it is not cold hands (or a warm heart) that are key to quality shortcrust pastry, but minimising the formation of the stringy, elastic protein gluten.
(9) Axons most commonly had longitudinal orientations and stringy shapes.
(10) Thousands of boxes of the green, stringy plant are brought here each week for distribution across the UK.
(11) HS, PER, and NOX arbors had a "stringy" shape without a clear terminal focus, save for the fact that PER and NOX collaterals often terminated in rostrally displaced substantia gelatinosa at the level of the caudal SpVi.
(12) The polymerization process has four stages before final curing: slurry, stringy, dough-like (plastic), and rubber-like (elastic).
(13) In the fully developed syndrome, the upper tarsal plate has an increase in stringy mucus and is covered by large papillae crowded together.
(14) Unlike vibrissa afferents, hairy skin afferents gave rise to sparse and widespread arbors characterized by a string-like appearance, while the Vo collaterals were more stringy.
(15) But Henry VIII aside (a massive fan of the friendship bracelet), this particular stringy accessory truly had its moment among those born around the mid to late 70s and early 80s.
(16) And on days when I feel like what I’m working at is dreadful and not working out at all, I remember that Dorothy felt like “a plain disagreeable child with stringy hair and a yen to write poetry”, like she was only following in the footsteps of other, better women, in dirty sneakers.
(17) The aging neck in which the stringy appearance is due to hyperactive platysma can be surgically treated.
(18) The microscopic pathology shows fibrous tissue, reactive woven bone, and stringy, eosinophilic, extracellular debris.
(19) It may be interpreted that there was a stringy structure embedded in the calcospherites beneath the predentin.
Thready
Definition:
(a.) Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub.
(a.) Containing, or consisting of, thread.
Example Sentences:
(1) These led to the formation of rapid slippery and thready pulse.
(2) Inner cortex capillaries were thin, thready and arranged in polygonal meshes of 40-70 microns.
(3) On standing, a thready precipitate appeared; it was inactive against rabbit red cells, was not lethal to rabbits, but was able to elicit specific anti-alpha antibody production in the rabbit.
(4) Photosensitivity was seen significantly more frequently in the patients with the large speckle-like thready pattern than in those with the thready pattern.
(5) A thready structure of the length of several millimeters observed in one-day-old females develops in chicks into a long, thin-walled ampula filled up with clear liquid.
(6) Furthermore, the large, speckle-like, thready antinuclear antibody pattern, which has been shown to be a marker for a benign subset of lupus erythematosus, is not seen in lichen planus.
(7) Only those with the thready or the large speckle-like thready patterns were studied.
(8) The thready filiform papillae might function as a heat-releasing organ and be involved in the control of body temperature.
(9) The cornoid lamellae vary in height in relation to how prominent the thready ridge of the clinical lesion appears.
(10) In addition to starlike cells, friable pigment and thready remnants of the pupillary membrane, also radial retroiridal pigmentlines which were found on the peripheral anterior capsula of the lens were interpreted to be remnants of the "tunica vasculosa retroiridalis (membrana capsulopupillaris).
(11) She developed spontaneous hypoglycaemia and symptoms of acute adrenal crisis (hypotension, nausea, abdominal pain and tachycardia with small thready pulse), which responded to i.v.
(12) In the periphery of the cortex, the microvascular net showed large (70-90 microns) irregularly rounded meshes, with thin, thready capillaries often anastomosed with those of primary follicles.
(13) In a patient with cancer, a diagnosis of cardiac tamponade should be considered when there is dyspnea, cough, thready pulse or pulsus paradoxus, low systolic blood pressure, engorged neck veins, an enlarged cardiac silhouette, and total or ventricular electrical alternans.
(14) The nevi showed increased amounts of thick elastic fibres, which were composed of irregularly arranged, often finger-like, subunits surrounded by a thready material.
(15) The small markedly degenerated corpus luteum contains only scattered thready capillaries.
(16) Small (primary) follicles showed thin and thready capillaries.
(17) They will be pale, sweaty, may complain of thirst, and the pulse will be rapid and thready.
(18) Furthermore, a thready material was found in the membrane as well as an increased amount of acid mucopolysaccharides.
(19) The stippled pattern was found to be more common in those cases of less than one year's duration, while the thready pattern was more common in those cases lasting longer than one year.
(20) The SLIs were thready linear or tubular structures which immunostained with antiubiquitin antibodies.