Word Finder - fibers

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A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.

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The microscope showed a single blue fiber stuck to the sole of the shoe.

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A material in the form of fibers.

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The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.

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A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.

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Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.

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Dietary fiber.

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Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber

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Moral strength and resolve.

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The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.

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The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.

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Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π

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Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.

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A kind of lightweight thread of execution.

The fibers in the compost create air pockets in which tiny seeds can become stranded.

Angora rabbit fibers need more twist to hold the fibers together as they don't contain a crimp like sheeps wool.

Each ligament is made of many strands or fibers of a material called collagen, which is extremely strong.

The instrument uses 400 optical fibers, which a robotic arm takes about one hour to position with incredible accuracy.

Anyone who uses your premises, and who disturbs asbestos that has deteriorated or been damaged and releases fibers, can be at risk.

Diseases that may results from breathing in these fibers include asbestosis, mesothelioma and lung cancer.

The larger diameter collagen fibers formed from Type I collagen are not blackened by silver.

It all depends.. ... Cotton is in fact fibers of pure cellulose.

Each of the fibers reduced cholesterol by similar amounts.

Even published studies are now agreeing that in the pleura they find more chrysotile, mainly short fibers, than other types of asbestos.

Lots of these collagen fibrils are bound together to form collagen fibrils are bound together to form collagen fibers that easily can be seen with a light microscope.

Meat with large diameter collagen fibers tends to be tougher than meat with thinner collagen fibers tends to be tougher than meat with thinner collagen fibers.

Type v collagen has also been found in the basement membranes of muscle fibers, except at the point where muscle fibers are innervated.

Comb out all the loose fibers using a metal toothed comb out all the loose fibers using a metal toothed comb.

Local anesthetic agents may be administered intradermally or subcutaneously to block impulse conduction in local nerve fibers.

In an eccentric contraction, the muscle fibers lengthen to lower the weight.

The two hemispheres communicate via dense bundles of nerve fibers called the corpus callosum.

Conventional cotton undergarments absorb moisture and the cotton fibers swell which closes up fabric pores forming a barrier against water vapor diffusion.

Textile dyeing to improve the dyeing of cellulosic fibers with reactive dyes.

Many of the fibers are hand-dyed using plants grown locally and natural dyestuffs from around the world.

The work will develop fibers with optimal dimensions and solubility for cell growth do deliver genetically modified muscle cells to treat muscular dystrophy.

I have found a vapor bath very efficacious in releasing rigid fibers.

They also have no valves valves and contain less elastic and muscle fibers more elastic and muscle fibers.

Unfortunately there was very little pigment present in the sample; what there was had become almost inextricably enmeshed in the wood fibers.

Liquid anisotropic etching of silicon enables the accurate fabrication of V-shaped grooves to locate optic fibers.

Poliomyelitis causes an overall loss of motor units; therefore, the remaining units must innervate many more muscle fibers than they did originally.

New branches of the remaining nerve cells were sent out to adopt the orphaned muscle fibers.

Muscle biopsy studies do not reveal a significant increase in small angulated fibers until after age 70 years (105 ).

Atrophic fibers were noted to be of both major fiber types, with no significant increase between biopsy samples except in one subject.

Fiber Optics - Also called optical fiber Optics - Also called optical fibers or optical fiber bundles.

Meat with large diameter collagen fibers tends to be tougher than meat with thinner collagen fibers.

The elastin fibers in the image below (from loose connective tissue around the intestine) are the thin black ones.

Despite overwhelming interest, scientists know relatively little about how plant cells synthesize individual cellulose fibers.

Electron microscopy reveals that elastic fibers are composed of bundles of small fibrils approximately 11 nm in diameter embedded in an amorphous material.

Lots of these collagen fibrils are bound together to form collagen fibers that easily can be seen with a light microscope.

With minor modification to the existing fittings, Future Fibers was able to replace the rod forestay with a stretch equivalent PBO cable.

I design and make felted fabric using natural fibers, and use the felt to create functional as well as decorative art pieces.

Research is conducted on fiber production from cashmere goats and fine wool sheep and on the biology of growth and shedding of fibers.

This antibody, also called an immunoglobulin, may damage the nerve fibers.

Designed to mimic the normal anatomic ligament fibers, the intra-articular longitudinal fibers resist fatigue and allow fibroblastic ingrowth.

The central portion has open longitudinal fibers which overlay the ruptured tendon, allowing for fibroblastic ingrowth.

A skip loaded with waste asbestos insulation material made a 40-mile round trip from Wolverhampton to Telford releasing fibers all the way.

In other words, the high- intensity training allowed nerve cells to ' reach out and touch ' an increased number of muscle fibers.

It has been found that fast twitch fibers generally produce more lactate than slow twitch.

Wood is made from cellulose fibers that are bound together by a material called lignin.

Some areas showed accumulation of neutral lipid in fibers that stained positively for succinate dehydrogenase.

The researchers will study the pattern of release of interleukins by alveolar macrophages that have been treated with fibers.

The fur is made up of guard hairs supporting a dense mat of secondary fibers.

Virtually all cases of pleural mesothelioma are caused by exposure to asbestos fibers.

Two bread bags full of milkweed down or other silky plant fibers make warm mittens (tie them at the wrists ).