Something flipped upon Harry's shoulder - a light, cordlike object.

Each nerve is a cordlike structure that contains many axons.

He passed it to Jake; it was a long, cordlike object.

They are attached to the substrate by a cordlike rhizomorph.

I noticed the cordlike veins showing through his skin.

The tendons on his neck stood out cordlike under his sweat-glistening skin.

We huddled around the owner and watched breathlessly as he applied his punk to the cordlike fuse.

Her skin rippled and her limbs had lost definition and become cordlike.

Attach the valve to nearby cordlike heart tissues (chordal transposition).

The tree's branches hung limply, supple and cordlike.

The nerves in the throat are a magnificent network of immobilizing, cordlike fibres connecting the body organs to the central nervous system.

This fern produces a creeping, cordlike, scaly stem.

These filamentous forms are more common in influenza C, which can form cordlike structures up to 500 micrometers long on the surfaces of infected cells.

Then he grabbed Riker by the arm, not even wasting time trying to pry the cordlike fingers from Mot's throat.

A company called Indiana Bio-Composites will make a recyclable exterior panel for a mobile home from kenaf, a cordlike hibiscus, in the next two years.

The smallest, about 16 inches high, is the fussiest: a gently ridged blade set on a three-part handle of cordlike twisted metal stapled in the center.

Thick cordlike ridges ran down their foreheads, circled beneath their dark eyes, and extended down their thick, bulky necks.

The panther's muscles drooped, slack from exhaustion, and the black- furred skin of one shoulder hung out, torn, revealing sinew and cordlike tendons underneath.

Narcotic dermopathy is a skin condition caused by the injection of drugs intravenously, resulting in thrombosed, cordlike, thickened veins at the site of injection.

Icingdeath found strength in anger, and with an explosion of power beyond anything the barbarian had ever imagined, the dragon snapped its cordlike muscles, sending great chunks of ice flying away.

The central woman grasping the branch of a tree is an ancient Indian symbol of fertility, but the cordlike roots dangling below her body seem to cripple rather than sustain her.

Ectomycorrhizae of Tricholoma species can vary considerably among species in the genus, and differences in the structure of rhizomorphs (a cordlike fusions of hyphae resembling a root) have been used to key out species.