The phrase "as a spindle" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are comparing something to a spindle, often in terms of shape, function, or role.
Example: "The dancer moved gracefully, her arms extending outwards as a spindle, creating a beautiful silhouette."
Alternatives: "like a spindle" or "in the manner of a spindle".
Feigel's sympathetic portrait of the woman unkindly referred to by Virginia Woolf as "a spindle shanked withered virgin" is especially welcome because no good biography has as yet been written of Macaulay.
Lori Marino of Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia, reviewed this evidence.One pertinent observation is that dolphins, whales and their kind have brains as anatomically complex as those of humans, and that these brains contain a particular type of nerve cell, known as a spindle cell, that in humans is associated with higher cognitive functions such as abstract reasoning.
The stalk can also be dried as a spindle for making fire either by hand drill or bow drill.
Although ASPM was part of a signature of 254 genes predictive of metastasis [46], a functional role for this gene in metastatic progression is not obvious given its known role as a spindle protein that regulates brain size with mutations in the gene being associated with microcephaly [47].
To further explore the role of Bub3 as a spindle checkpoint protein, we confirmed that the optimal dosage of nocodazole that was able to block the MI-AI transition but not GVBD in meiosis without apparent spindle damage was 0.04 µg/ml [32], [33] (Supplementary material Fig. S2 ruled out any side effects of nocodazole on meiosis I).
In accordance with its identification as a spindle component, Ska1 was concentrated at the outer KT in a MT-dependent manner during prometaphase, where it remained until anaphase.
In squids the ink is ejected as a spindle-shaped mass about the size of the squid itself, the ink coagulating in the water.
maelstrom is some time classified as a spindle-class gene (Clegg et al. 1997, 2001; Findley et al. 2003).
Furthermore, the cells showed typical fibroblast's characteristics, such as adherent growth on culture flasks, as well as a spindle-like morphology.
MSCs from these two sources present some common features, such as a spindle-like appearance, adherence to plastic when cultured and a cellular phenotype.
Additionally, oxaliplatin-resistant colorectal cancer cells have been shown to display many of the hallmarks of EMT, including increased migration and invasion as well as a spindle-cell shape, loss of polarity and formation of pseudopodia [ 45].
