Fibrous Sentence Examples

A simple tumour composed of well-differentiated fibrous tissue.

It is from these cells the permanent fibrous tissue is formed.

Asbestos is a naturally occurring, fibrous silicate mineral.

This basis for a naturally fibrous (and therefore ' chewy ') texture has been exploited in the formulation of meat analogs.

Dura mater grafts have largely been replaced by synthetic materials or by grafts of fibrous tissue derived from the individual undergoing the graft.

Human skin contains keratin which is a fibrous protein which is also the principal constituent of hair.

Dura mater grafts have largely been replaced by synthetic mater grafts have largely been replaced by synthetic materials or by grafts of fibrous tissue derived from the individual undergoing the graft.

A mineral compound, asbestos is the common name for a group of six naturally occurring fibrous minerals found in certain rock formations.

The development of the spine starts with a band of fibrous tissue called the notochord.

Survivors of outbreaks can exhibit fibrous replacement of the exocrine pancreas.

In the midline is the central tendon, the fibrous pericardium attaches to the superior aspect of this tendon.

No longer are the essential skills, which include stone masonry, fibrous plastering and lead sheet working passed down from generation to generation.

Scottish farmed salmon are firm with a fibrous to smooth to even texture.

Near Talcville, in St Lawrence county, is a large deposit of fibrous talc. In 1908 the total value of the state's talc product was $ 6 97,39 0, almost one-half the total for the entire country.

Deep to these is the ovarian stroma, composed of fibrous tissue, and embedded in it are numerous nests of epithelial cells, the Graafian follicles, in various stages of development.

It also occurs in nature in fibrous excrescences, constituting the mineral epsomite or hair-salt; and as compact masses (reichardite), as in the Stassfurt mines.

The fibre and nibs have to be cleaned off by means of a gassing machine so constructed that the end of silk (silk yarn) is frictioned to throw off the nibs, and at the same time is run very rapidly through a gas flame a sufficient number of times to burn off the hairy and fibrous matter without injuring the main thread.

It is never crystallized, but may have a fibrous or microcrystalline structure, and commonly occurs in concretionary forms or in compact and earthy masses; sometimes mammillated, botryoidal, reniform or stalactitic. The colour presents various shades of brown and yellow, and the streak is always brownish, a character which distinguishes it from haematite with a red, or from magnetite with a black streak.

The water which trickles over the rims of the pools and basins on the upper terraces is a transparent blue, while the formation itself contains a network of fibrous algae which gives it a wonderful variety of colours.

In making up composts for pot plants, the fibrous portion should not be removed by sifting, except for small-sized pots, but the turfy portions should be broken up by hand and distributed in smaller or larger lumps throughout the mass.

When sifting is had recourse to, the fibrous matter should be rubbed through the meshes of the sieve along with the earthy particles.

It likes fibrous peat in fissures of the rocks.

Graceful water or marsh plants with hastate leaves, and tuberous, running and fibrous roots.

For potting or basketing purposes, or for plants requiring blockculture, the materials used are light fibrous peat, special leaf-mould, osmunda or polypodium fibre and living sphagnum moss, which supply free drainage for the copious supply of water required.

The spores should be sown in well-drained pots or seed pans on the surface of a mixture of fibrous sifted peat and small broken crocks or sandstone; this soil should be firmly pressed and well-watered, and the spores scattered over it, and at once covered with propagating glasses or pieces of sheet glass, to prevent water or dry air getting to the surface.

After this season, keep always a reserve of annuals in pots, or planted on beds of thin layers of fibrous matter, so as to be readily transplanted.

Contrary, too, to popular belief, he has found a fibrous structure more common in pyrite than in marcasite.

The fruits, which are among the largest known, take ten years to ripen; they have a fleshy and fibrous envelope surrounding a hard nut-like portion which is generally two-lobed, suggesting a large double coco-nut.

The substance is usually optically isotropic, though sometimes it exhibits anomalous double refraction; fibrous zinc sulphide which is doubly refracting is to be referred to the hexagonal FIG.

By modern mineralogists the name chalcedony is restricted to those kinds of silica which occur not in distinct crystals like ordinary quartz, but in concretionary, mammillated or stalactitic forms, which break with a fine splintery fracture, and display a delicate fibrous structure.

Optical examination of many chalcedonic minerals by French mineralogists has shown that they are aggregates of various fibrous crystalline bodies differing from each other in certain optical characters, whence they are distinguished as separate minerals under such names as calcedonite,pseudocalcedonite,quartzine, lutecite and lussatite.

Rock-salt commonly occurs in cleavable masses, or sometimes in laminar, granular or fibrous forms, the finely fibrous variety being known as " hair-salt."

Both these preparations should only be used in cases where it is possible to exclude any tuberculous foci, or by their action in breaking down protective fibrous tissues they may cause a quiescent lesion to become active.

Broadly the malleable and ductile metals and alloys show a fibrous character when ruptured, the fusible ones a crystalline fracture.

Wrought iron and mild steel may be made to show a short and crystalline fracture by a sudden application of stress, while if drawn asunder slowly they develop the silky, fibrous appearance.

In the low brushwood scattered over portions of the dreary plains of the Kandahar table-lands, we find leguminous thorny plants of the papilionaceous sub-order, such as camel-thorn (Hedysarum Alhagi), Astragalus in several varieties, spiny rest-harrow (Ononis spinosa), the fibrous roots of which often serve as a tooth-brush; plants of the sub-order Mimosae, as the sensitive mimosa; a plant of the rue family, called by the natives lipdtd; the common wormwood; also certain orchids, and several species of Salsola.

This latter cause is chiefly observed when the tissues are of a very unyielding character; for example, when the inflammation occurs in a bone or under a thick fibrous and unyielding membrane.

When the inflammation occurs in soft parts where the surrounding vessels can be readily dilated, heat often affords more relief to the pain than cold, but when the inflammation is in a bone or in unyielding fibrous tissues, cold generally gives more relief.

Much haematite occurs in a compact or massive form, often mammillary, and presenting on fracture a fibrous structure.

The hard fibrous ore of Cumberland is known as pencil ore, and is employed for the burnishers used by bookbinders and others.

The majority of the members of the family are of longer duration, and have the roots also fibrous, but fewer, thicker and less branched.

The turf-formation, which is characteristic of open situations in cool temperate climates, results from an extensive production of short stolons, the branches and the fibrous roots developed from their nodes forming the dense " sod."

A fibrous plant, known as the sanseviera, grows in a wild state in the semi-desert regions of the north and south-east.

Among the Griquatown series of quartzites, limestones and shales are numerous bands of jasper and large quantities of crocidolite (a fibrous amphibole); while at Blink Klip a curious breccia, over 200 ft.

Other epidermic appendages are the horns of ruminants and rhinoceroses - the former being elongated, tapering, hollow caps of hardened epidermis of fibrous structure, fitting on and growing from conical projections of the frontal bones and always arranged in pairs, while the latter are of similar structure, but without any internal bony support, and situated in the middle line.

It occurs in nature as the mineral melanterite, either crystalline or fibrous, but usually massive; it appears to have been formed by the oxidation of pyrite or marcasite.

Rye is a tall-growing annual grass, with fibrous roots, flat, narrow, ribbon-like bluish-green leaves, and erect or decurved cylindrical slender spikes like those of barley.

Misled, however, into identifying it with magnetism, he imagined circulation in the solar system to be maintained through the material compulsion of fibrous emanations from the sun, carried round by his axial rotation.

This experiment was partially successful, but the instinctive dislike of bees to anything of a fibrous nature caused them completely to spoil their work of comb-building in the endeavour to tear or gnaw away the linen threads whenever they got in touch with them.

Radiating, fibrous or granular aggregates are more common.

In Calamodendron (Upper Coal Measures) the wood has a more complex structure than in Calamites, the principal rays including radial tracts of fibrous tissue, in addition to the usual parenchyma.

Serpentine, which may be fibrous or scaly, is a.

The lias shales of Whitby contain blocks of semi-mineralized wood, or jet, which is black with a resinous lustre, and a fibrous structure.

This pale green apophyllite, 15 mm in length, on fibrous mesolite, is from this cavity.

Seven of the 12 tumors had thin fibrous capsules that were not seen on sonography.

A carpal tunnel release involves making an incision in the fibrous sheath around the carpal tunnel release involves making an incision in the fibrous sheath around the carpal tunnel.

Collagen - the main substance in the white, fibrous connective tissue which is found in tendons, ligaments and cartilage.

Doctors misdiagnosed him with fibrous dysplasia - a benign condition characterized by areas of abnormal growth.

Chronic inflammation usually produces more fibrous material than inflammatory exudate.

The plantar fascia is a fibrous support for the arch of the foot.

The diagnosis of fibrous dysplasia and ossifying fibroma is made on a combination of clinical, radiological and pathological criteria.

When this dust is inhaled it can make the lungs gradually fibrous and lead to breathing problems.

The root inside the pot then branches and a very fibrous root structure is formed.

Inside, the juicy and slightly fibrous yellow flesh is formed into segments that are attached to a firm central core.

In the " seventies " of the 19th century feeling ran somewhat high over the rival doctrines concerning the origin of puscorpuscles, Cohnheim and his school maintaining that they were derived exclusively from the blood, that they were leucocytes which had emigrated through the walls of the vessels and escaped into the surrounding tissue-spaces, while Stricker and his followers, although not denying their origin in part from the blood, traced them, in considerable proportion, to the fixed elements, such as fibrous tissues and endothelia.

When this process has reached a certain stage and all the absorption necessary has occurred the new blood vessels, from the increasing pressure of the successive fibrous layers, gradually dwindle and become obliterated, i.e.

Thus the poison of various insects induces in plants the cellular new formation known as a gall-nut; a foreign body implanted in a limb may become encysted in a capsule of fibrous tissue; septic matter introduced into the abdomen will cause proliferation of the lining endo(epi)thelium; and placing an animal (salamander, Galeotti) in an ambient medium at a higher temperature than that to which it is accustomed naturally, increases the rapidity of celldivision of its epithelium with augmentation of the number of karyokinetic figures.

Posteriorly, at what is known as the root of the penis, the two corpora cavernosa diverge, become more and more fibrous in structure, and are attached on each side to the rami of the ischium, while the corpus spongiosum becomes more vascular and enlarges to form the bulb.

Retraction of the foreskin reveals a clearly defined fibrous ring.

The main source of methane is ruminants fed on low quality, fibrous diets.

One is the breakdown of fibrous tissues, which results in tenderness.

Bamboo is a fast growing and fibrous plant.

The thick, aromatic, knotty, and fibrous root system of ginger is commonly used for a multitude of things.

Acai berries in their raw state are very hard to find in most areas of the U.S. and on top of that, difficult to eat because of their fibrous texture and seedpods.

Before making a recipe for roasted asparagus with garlic, wash the spears thoroughly and snap off the fibrous butts.

The outside consists of a thick, fibrous husk that surrounds a nut with a brittle hairy shell.

The undigested fibrous material of sunflower seeds can aggravate an inflamed colon.

It is less trouble out of doors than under glass; indeed, it only requires a moderately wet bog in a light spongy soil of fibrous peat and chopped Sphagnum Moss.

This should consist of equal parts of good fibrous loam and well-decomposed manure, half fibrous peat, and half coarse sand.

The main points in beginning the culture of Narcissi are to get sound and healthy bulbs as early as possible after June, and to plant or pot them at once in good fibrous, sandy, or gravelly loam, or in any virgin soil.

A suitable soil consists of equal portions of fibrous peat and loam, good sharp sand being added, together with broken oyster-shells or limestone.

It is a good plant for the bog garden or for damp spots in the rock garden, in an open and fully-exposed position with the choicer bog plants, in fibrous peat well mixed with Sphagnum Moss, which is common in marshy places.

This may be readily done without needlessly checking them, as they form so many fibrous roots that a good ball of soil usually adheres to them.

Moist fibrous roots are better than woody pot-bound roots.

Anyone who wears bamboo is an instant convert, but to those who don't know how comfortable and pleasant it can be, the assumption is that it is fibrous and scratchy.

Cirrhosis-A chronic degenerative disease of the liver, in which normal cells are replaced by fibrous tissue and normal liver function is disrupted.

Ligament-A type of tough, fibrous tissue that connects bones or cartilage and provides support and strength to joints.

Collagen is a strong, fibrous protein that lends strength and elasticity to connective tissues such as the skin, tendons, organ walls, cartilage, and blood vessels.

Tendon-A tough cord of dense white fibrous connective tissue that connects a muscle with some other part, especially a bone, and transmits the force which the muscle exerts.

The dura is the tough, fibrous outermost membrane covering the brain and the spinal cord.

Its name derives from the fibrous scar tissue that develops in the pancreas, one of the principal organs affected by the disease.

The ulcers are painful, and the center appears white or yellow with a fibrous texture.

The outside is a tough, fibrous covering called the dura mater.

The periodontal ligament, also called the periodontal membrane, is the tough, fibrous tissue that holds the teeth in the gums.

Periodontal ligament-Also called the periodontal membrane, this tough fibrous tissue holds the teeth in place in the gums.

Collagen is a fibrous protein material that serves as the structural foundation of skin, bone, cartilage, and ligaments.

It is not known precisely what causes the abnormal growth of fibrous tissue in congenital adhesions.

This complex spans the muscle cell membrane to unite a fibrous network on the interior of the cell with a fibrous network on the outside.

About the same time, his calves will begin to swell, though with fibrous tissue rather than with muscle and feel firm and rubbery; this condition gives DMD one of its alternate names, pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy.

Changes in the structure of muscle cells and presence of fibrous tissue or other aberrant structures are characteristic of different forms of muscular dystrophy.

The increased amount of FSH and LH cause hyalinization and fibrosis, the growth of excess fibrous tissue, in the seminiferous tubules, where the sperm are normally located.

Adenomyosis-Uterine thickening caused when endometrial tissue, which normally lines the uterus, extends outward into the fibrous and muscular tissue of the uterus.

When fibrous or bony tissue invades bone marrow where red blood cells are made, the individual may develop anemia.

Sometimes a layer of fibrous tissue called a hyaline membrane forms in the air sacs, making it even harder for oxygen to get through to the blood vessels.

Hyaline membrane-A fibrous layer that settles in the alveoli in respiratory distress syndrome and prevents oxygen from escaping from inhaled air to the bloodstream.

The skeletal system of the body is made up of different types of the strong, fibrous tissue known as connective tissue.

The fibrous membrane may include tough bands of fibrous tissue called ligaments, which are responsible for providing support to the joints.

Although this lump disappears by itself after about three months, the SCM muscle becomes tight, contracted, and fibrous.

It is believed that either pressure on the SCM muscle due to position of the head in the uterus causes the muscle to become fibrous and shorten or that the blood supply to the muscle is disturbed and the muscle becomes scarred.

The goal of surgery in congenital muscular torticollis is to cut and then reattach the SCM muscle in a way that will remove the constricting bands of fibrous tissue, improve range of motion, and allow the head to be held vertically.

If you don't have any genetic ties to the illness, your second reason to suspect that gluten intolerance ties into your symptoms is if you become worse on a fibrous grain-based diet.

Brown rice flour is only slightly more fibrous, and corn flour, though more fibrous, can produce a very dense product when not used in a mix.

Autism Treatment Network was inspired by the Cystic Fibrous Network.

Good fibrous cooked vegetables are cabbage, broccoli, celery, corn, mushrooms, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, and onions.

The Thrive Diet recommends 45% of daily caloric intake come from fibrous vegetables.

Fibrous vegetables are those vegetables that are high in fiber and have a minimal impact on blood sugar.

Some examples of fibrous vegetables are alfalfa sprouts, dark leafy greens like kale and kohlrabi, cucumbers, celery and zucchini.

Some offer barely any calories and others contain vegetables higher in calories, but also more nutrient-dense and fibrous.

Raw vegetables tend to be far too fibrous for someone experiencing digestive upset.

The meat and juice, which are located on the inside of the fibrous coir, are the only edible parts of the coconut.

Once you have cleaned them, slice off the fibrous end of the stem and slice or quarter them.

Reniform and stalactitic masses with a radiated fibrous structure also occur.

Cadmium is a white metal, possessing a bluish tinge, and is capable of taking a high polish; on breaking, it shows a distinct fibrous fracture.

In the very frequent cases where the bundles have considerable individuality, the fibrous pericyclic cap very clearly has a common origin from the same strand of tissue as the vascular elements themselves.

The fibrous bands are generally formed towards the end of the years growth in thickness.

The intervertebral joints are further complicated by the interposition of a cartilaginous or fibrous pad or ring.

Arising as a long tendon from the sterno-scapular ligament, it passes the axilla by means of a fibrous pulley, accompanies the axillary vessels and nerves along the humerus, and is inserted by a few fleshy fibres on the base of the last two or three cubital quills.

The fibrous tough roots, softened by soaking in water, and split, are used by the Indians and voyageurs to sew together the birch-bark covering of their canoes; and a resin that exudes from the bark is employed to varnish over the seams. It was introduced to Great Britain at the end of the 17th century and was formerly more extensively planted than at present.

G, The acrecbolic snout of a proboscidiferous Gastropod, arrested short of complete eversion by the fibrous band b.

The platy minerals have also a perfect cleavage parallel to their flat surfaces, while the fibrous species often have two or more cleavages following their long axes; hence a schistose rock may split not only by separation of the mineral plates from one another but also by cleavage of the parallel minerals through their substance.

Increase in size appears sometimes to be accompanied by the development of a new layer of fibres, whereas a difference in the method of preparation may give to a layer which appeared homogeneous in one specimen a decidedly fibrous aspect in another.

As central organs we have to note the brain-lobes and the longitudinal lateral cords which form one continuous unsegmented mass of fibrous and cellular nerve-tissue.

The fibrous nervetissue is more dense in the higher differentiated, more loose and spongy in the lower organized 1P L forms; the cellular nerve-tissue is FIG.

The basal half is dull white, oval in section and coarsely fibrous, the middle part smooth, shining and round, and the tip black.

Pectolite is a secondary mineral occurring as white masses with a radially fibrous structure in the veins and cavities of basic igneous rocks.

Another type of incipient crystallization which is excessively common in obsidian is spherulites, or small rounded bodies which have a radiating fibrous structure.

The entosternite was probably in origin part of the fibrous connective tissue lying close to the integument of the sternal surface - giving attachment to muscles corresponding more or less to those at present attached to it.

Its walls are fibrous and complete, and it holds a considerable volume of blood when the heart itself is contracted.

Its favourite situation is the outlet (pyloric cancer), where a hard, fibrous growth forms a contracting ring of the scirrhous variety.

Another characteristic of cancer is that it spreads far and wide, drawing other tissues to itself by contracting fibrous bands.

Simple fibrous narrowing of the gateway of the stomach or of the intestine is dealt with by dividing it longitudinally and then suturing the edges of the wound transversely.

Muscle and white fibrous tissue follow next in order, while elastic tissue and bone are the last to show signs of disintegration.

Then they develop .definite fibrils which differentiate into fibrous laminae forming a zone which shuts off the abscess from the healthy tissue and so prevents the further invasion and injurious effects of the microorganism.

Where a chronic inflammatory process has taken possession of an organ, or, let us say, has been located in periosteum or other fibrous part, there is a great tendency to the production of cicatricial fibrous tissue in mass.

They supposed that it was accompanied by a peculiar hyaline thickening of the arterial wall, usually of the tunica intima, and hence they termed the supposed diseased state " arterio-capillary fibrosis," and gave the fibrous substance the name " hyaline-fibroid."

They held that the cirrhotic kidney is simply a local manifestation of a general fibrous disease.

Syphilitic lesion of the arteries, and likewise of other fibrous tissues, often involves grave consequential damage to nervous structures fed or supported by such parts.

The root occurs in fibrous pieces, which are usually rectangular blocks of irregular shape, 2 in.

Freezing takes place by the formation of pure ice in flat crystalline plates of the hexagonal system, which form in perpendicular planes and unite in bundles to form grains so that a thick covering of ice exhibits a fibrous structure.

Coal is never definitely crystalline, the nearest approach to such a structure being a compound fibrous grouping resembling that of gypsum or arragonite, which occurs in some of the steam coals of South Wales, and is locally known as " cone in cone," but no definite form or arrangement can be made out of the fibres.

For separating liquids from solids of a fibrous or crystalline character "hydroextractors" or "centrifugals" are frequently employed.

Marcasite readily oxidizes on exposure to moist air, with the production of sulphuric acid and a white fibrous efflorescence of ferrous sulphate, and in course of time specimens in collections often became completely disintegrated.

The salt volatilizes (mostly in the form of a mixed vapour of the two components, which reunite on cooling), and condenses in the dome in the form of a characteristically fibrous and tough crust.

The fruit is about the size of a small hen's egg, and within its fibrous rind is the seed or so-called nut, the albumen of which is very hard and has a prettily mottled grey and brown appearance.

The new fibrous tissue which is developed throughout the liver, as the result of the chronic inflammation, causes general enlargement of the liver with, perhaps, nausea, vomiting and jaundice.

Later the new fibrous tissue undergoes contraction and the liver becomes smaller than natural.

In the filaments of the gill of Protobranchia and many Filibranchia the tubular cavity is divided by a more or less complete fibrous septum into two channels, for an afferent and efferent blood-current.

It is enclosed in a fibrous capsule from which it is separated by the prostatic plexus of veins anteriorly.

Microscopically the prostate consists of masses of long, slender, slightly branching glands, embedded in unstriped muscle and fibrous tissue; these glands open by delicate ducts (about twenty in number) into the prostatic urethra, which will be.

The structure of the corpora cavernosa consists of a strong fibrous coat, the tunica albuginea, from the deep surface of which numerous fibrous trabeculae penetrate the interior and divide it into a number of spaces which are lined with endothelium and communicate with the veins.

Self-protection The eyeball itself is quite tough, given shape and stiffness by the outer, fibrous sclera.

The effects are broadly similar to eating seaweed in its original, fibrous state.

The neck is clothed with a very strong fibrous sheath ' .

The fibrous theca externa merges with the surrounding stroma.

Neuroma - a fibrous thickening of a nerve caused by reaction to long-standing irritation.

Metamorphosis.It has already been pointed out that each kind of member of the body may present a variety of forms. For example, a stem may be a tree-trunk, or a twining stem, or a tendril, or a thorn, or a creeping rhizome, or a tuber; a leaf may be a green foliage-leaf, or a scale protecting a bud, or a tendril, or a pitcher, or a floral leaf, either sepal, petal, stamen or carpel (sporophyll); a root may be a fibrous root, or a swollen tap-root like that of the beet or the turnip. All these various forms are organs discharging some special function, and are examples of what Wolff called modification, and Goethe metamorphosis.

Under such conditions of supply, however, the root-crops, gross feeders as they are, and distributing a very large extent of fibrous feeding root within the soil, avail themselves of a much larger quantity of the nitrogen supplied than the cereal crops would do in similar circumstances.

The introvert is not a simple one with complete range both in eversion and introversion, but is arrested in introversion by the fibrous bands at c, and similarly in eversion by the fibrous bands at b.

In the neck of the proboscis the fibrous layer is greatly thickened, and other intensifications of this layer occur in the dorsal and ventral middle lines of the trunk extending to the posterior end of the body.

If absorption be not complete the mass undergoes caseation and becomes surrounded by a capsule of fibrous tissue - being sharply cut off from the healthy tissue.

As their fibrils become more developed they gradually form fibrous laminae which are laid down first in the deeper part of the wound.

The rocks in the Arakan range and its spurs are metamorphic, and comprise clay, slates, ironstone and indurated sandstone; towards the S., ironstone, trap and rocks of basaltic character are common; veins of steatite and white fibrous quartz are also found.

In the Chalk of the south-east of England nodules of marcasite with a fibrous radiated structure are abundant, and in the Chalk Marl between Dover and Folkestone fine twinned groups of "spear pyrites" are common.

The body-cavity and the muscular, fibrous and vascular tissues are traced partly to two symmetrically disposed " mesoblasts," which bud off from the invaginated arch-enteron, partly to cells derived from the ectoderm, which at a very early stage is connected by long processes with the invaginated endoderm.

It has small leaves and fibrous bark, the wood is light, soft and easily-worked, and very durable in contact with the soil, and is much used for boat-building and for making fences and coopers' staves.

The soil is in general very fertile, the principal products being rice, maize and pulse (kachang) in the lower grounds, and cinchona, coffee and tea, as well as cocoa, tobacco and fibrous plants in the hills.