Sentence examples for flap of tissue from inspiring English sources

Often they are protected by the recurved leaf margin or a membranous flap of tissue (indusium).

Thus, Dr. Nathan was perplexed when the patient returned five days later unhealed, with an unattached flap of tissue, severe bleeding and an infection.

They are covered with a membranous protective flap of tissue (indusium).

The sori vary from round to linear and sometimes have a kidney-shaped, membranous protective flap of tissue (indusium).

A sorus may be protected during development by a scale or flap of tissue called an indusium.

Sniffing is regulated by the soft palate, a flap of tissue in the back of the throat that directs the flow of air through the mouth and nose.

Even hotter than the previous exchange, "sticky and heavy with desire," with "a thick tongue-flap of tissue separating the mass from the moist female organs below," is... what?

A third type, Asteroxylon, had kidney-bean-shaped sporangia located along the stem rather than at its tip; small flaps of tissue along the stem may have increased its photosynthetic surface.

Sterile stamens may differ only slightly from fertile stamens, or they may consist of a filament alone without an anther, or be united in a cup about the base of the female structure or in a tube joined to the petals, or be reduced to minute flaps of tissue.

Spores are borne under false indusia (rolled flaps of tissue) at the edge of the subdivisions of the leaf, a characteristic unique to the genus Adiantum.

N. pseudofischeri, the most common Neosartorya species involved in human infections, is easily distinguished because its ascospore walls are ornamented with raised flaps of tissue resembling triangular projections or long ridge lines.