Sentence examples for plain cord from inspiring English sources

He refused to don all the traditional garments - the ermine vest, for instance - of a new pope, to come out to the world instead in a simple white cassock, with what appeared to be something like a wooden cross on a plain cord around his neck.

After transplantation into the injured spinal cord, plain PHB conduit was well-integrated into posttraumatic cavity and induced modest astroglial reaction.

But against that backdrop, the clothes seemed eerily quiet and casual, with round-shouldered coats in lovely muted pastels, the color of bathrobes, and a simple waffle-knit sweater shown over roomy wide-wale cords in plain gray.

Hide them in plain sight with these ingenious cord hacks.

You can also buy a plain steel ring and some leather cord.

(The brindle-hide version is available in plain gray and dark gunmetal finishes; the shock-cord model is black or camel-colored cord with a polished-steel or blackened-steel frame).

The cord is as you might expect, plain and a bit thinner than normal.

Unless intervertebral discs are mineralized, they are not visible when viewing plain radiographic images; therefore, myelography may be useful to diagnose spinal cord compression from a herniated disc.

Bone scintigraphy and plain films can show bone alterations, but do not visualize the cord.

MRI (plain and contrast-enhanced) is currently considered appropriately sensitive for detecting brain and spinal cord lesions; however, equal sensitivity has been reported using delayed-contrast CT scanning [1].

Fractures and luxations of the spine are often apparent on plain radiographs; however, myelography is used to determine if the lesion is causing spinal cord compression that may be amenable to surgical decompression.