(n.) A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted.
(n.) A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.
(n.) The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw, n., 1.
(n.) Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse.
(n.) Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness.
(v. t.) To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.
(v. t.) To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid.
(v. t.) To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.
Example Sentences:
(1) Use 3-ml Luer-Lok syringes and 30-gauge needles and thread the needle carefully into the vessel while using slow and steady injection with light pressure.
(2) No infection threads were found to penetrate either root hairs or the nodule cells.
(3) When using a nylon thread for the attachment of a pseudophakos to the iris, it may happen that the suture is slung tightly around the implant-lens.
(4) This thread ran through his later writings, which focused particularly on questions of the transformation of work and working time, envisaging the possibility that the productivity gains made possible by capitalism could be used to enhance individual and social life, rather than intensifying ruthless economic competition and social division.
(5) Santi Cazorla, Sánchez and Mesut Özil were all involved, and when the ball came back to Cazorla he made a fine threaded pass to Walcott.
(6) We've brought on two experts to answer your questions from 1-2pm BST in the comment thread on this article.
(7) The astrocytes had generally two types of processes: (1) thread-like processes of relatively constant width with few ramifications and few lamellar appendages and (2) the sinuous processes with clusters of lamellar appendages.
(8) Electron microscopy showed the presence of bacterial ghosts and protein threads.
(9) George RR Martin , whose series of novels inspired the HBO drama , has woven a tapestry of extraordinary size and richness; and most of the threads he has used derive from the history of our own world.
(10) The left anterior descending coronary artery of dogs and the right common carotid artery of rabbits were subjected to partial constriction with suture thread (40-60% reduction in transluminal diameter).
(11) Neuronal thread protein is a recently characterized, approximately 20-kd protein that accumulates in brains with Alzheimer's disease (AD) lesions.
(12) Small threaded pins do not cause femoral head rotation.
(13) Nematocyst capsules and everted threads from both species contained levels of glycine and proline-hydroxyproline characteristic of vertebrate collagens.
(14) Load transfer from ring to bone is concentrated at the first and last threads where the subchondral bone layer is penetrated.
(15) Furthermore, large numbers of neuropil threads are scattered throughout the nuclear gray.
(16) The histological findings of actinomyces spores, thread-like foreign material and detritus drew out attention to the rare manifestation of abdominal actinomycosis.
(17) Monofilament nylon threads are used as drains in free skin grafting; 2-0 or 3-0 nylon threads are usually applied.
(18) Monoclonal antibodies, raised independently in two laboratories against either pancreatic stone protein (PSP) or pancreatic thread protein (PTP), reacted with the Mr 14,000 protein(s).
(19) With the initial technique, the gastrostomy tube was pulled in by a thread introduced percutaneously into the stomach.
(20) P19 gave by proteolysis a protein of 14 KD (P14), at first named protein X and also called pancreatic thread protein or pancreatic stone protein.
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.