Sentence examples for barbed thread from inspiring English sources

Each is produced by a special cell called a cnidoblast and contains a coiled, hollow, usually barbed thread, which quickly turns outward (i.e., is everted) from the capsule upon proper stimulation.

He was inspired to make his own version of a monodirectional barbed thread anchored at the temple via a surgical approach and to use it in conjunction with the endoscopic face-lift technique he had developed.

Casually touching many cnidarians will make it clear how they got their name when their nematocysts eject barbed threads tipped with poison.

It is a useful contribution to the body of work published about barbed threads in nonsurgical facial rejuvenation, further validating their use as a viable alternative to surgical face-lifting.

Designed to carry barbed wire threaded through its loops, the feature is more commonly associated with the First World War but was also widely used for Britain's coastal defence system during the Second World War.

Use barbed shanks to thread plastic baits on the shank.

As a kid in Hebrew school, I made a lavish book report cover that represented Elie Wiesel's Night with a flame-laden sky and barbed wire made of black thread studded with unruly knots.

They were linked together with barbed wire, which had been painstakingly threaded through their tongues.

The memory spawned the sculpture "Tumbleweed" (1963-66), a tangle of chromed barbed wire around three crossed wooden beams, threaded with a curlicue of glowing blue neon tubing.

Farther down the road, rows of tires bound with barbed wire and studded with nails are threaded onto more scaffolding.

Other anglers choose to use self-weedless jig heads; one variety of such features a barbed wire attached to the jig eye that is threaded through the worm head while the hook is threaded into the body of the worm.