Sentence examples for a thick portion from inspiring English sources

Microstructural analysis of single compaction bands highlights the presence of two typical portions, a thin portion and a thick portion.

So it seemed fortuitous when, 5 years later, Charles Dawson, a professional lawyer and amateur fossil hunter in Sussex, U.K. (now East Sussex, U.K ., wrote to his friend, paleontologist Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, announcing that he had uncovered a "thick portion of a human skull which will rival H. heidelbergensis in solidity" near the Sussex village of Piltdown.

In the scans showing the anatomic context around the odontocete TPC (Figure 5), the dorsal branch of the MFB fills the bony funnel and is in contact with all of its bony components, including the thinnest patches of the tympanic bone and a thick portion of the dense periotic bone, specifically the parabullary ridge of the periotic.

It consists of a thick muscular portion (m) and a thin oval-shaped membranous portion (asterisk).

In its report, Det Norske Veritas, the Norwegian company, said the sudden rush of gas and oil forced the pipe upward so that a thick connecting portion became stuck near the top of the blowout preventer.

The thick portion is characterized by an almost homogeneously distributed compaction throughout the band.

This would ensure that enough of the thick portion of the nail remained in the distal femur at completion of lengthening.

The graft was shaped and placed with the thick portion of the iliac crest at the periphery representing the medial or lateral column and the thin portion centrally toward the thin area of distal humerus where olecranon and coronoid fossae meet (Fig. 5).

6 stalks lemon grass, lower thick portion only, pounded.

The exclusive expression of uromodulin in the thick portion of the ascending limb, where physiologically crucial mechanisms of sodium handling are located, and its potential to act as modulator of other salt transport systems located downstream, suggests that alterations of this protein might affect hypertension and renal sodium handling through an effect on sodium homeostasis.

Zuber noted that the measurements only look at a micron-thick portion of Shackleton Crater's uppermost layer.