They must, indeed, smile back in reply; so the thick sheath unfolds, and behold!

Many axons are wrapped in thick sheaths of a fatty substance called myelin, which serves to greatly increase the speed of signal propagation.

Firstly, if used with a short introducer, the thicker robotic sheath may result in bruising and bleeding at or near the site where it enters the vein.

As a result, not all particles that are incident onto the surface of the thick sheath are collected.

They are smooth and white, with an abundance of gluten making a thick sheath over it.

Gladioli blazing out of their thick green sheaths, sprigs of speckled green and yellow laurel.

The rectus abdominis is enclosed in a thick sheath formed, as described above, by fibers from each of the three muscles of the lateral abdominal wall.

Perhaps the least interesting of them are a series of installations made out of thick sheaths of colored monofilament line, hanging from the ceiling.

I opened my legal briefcase, withdrew a thick sheath of papers, took a moment to clear my mind, and dug in.

"These are cables," she said, pointing to a thick gray sheath.