Sentence examples for protective sheath from inspiring English sources

Outside the needle, the three optical fibers were protected with a flexible, plastic protective sheath until their termination at SMA connectors.

The infective L3 has a protective sheath (L3sh) that allows for movement on pasture while protecting the parasite from ecological pressures.

It destroys myelin, the protective sheath around nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord, and gradually damages the nerves themselves.

Already, one superconducting cable pilot project -- in Detroit -- was stymied by cracks in the outer protective sheath around the cable that allowed coolant to leak out.

The South American lungfish also burrows into the mud in times of water shortage, but it forms no protective sheath.

Wilson Has Aching Fingers Enrique Wilson's right pinkie is crooked as a fishhook and his right index finger is covered by a protective sheath as he waits to find out if he has ligament or nerve damage.

Emerging triumphantly on stage before realising she'd left on the protective sheaths for her boxfresh trainers, she launches into a set full of brilliantly witty and disdainful lyricism.

Water beetles (e.g., Dytiscus) have converted the space between the protective sheaths on the hind wings (elytra) and the abdomen into an air-storage chamber.

The grass embryo possesses structures that do not occur in any other flowering plants—namely, the scutellum, an organ concerned with the nutrition of the seedling, and the coleoptile and coleorhiza, protective sheaths of the young shoot and the radicle.

In some insects, notably beetles (Coleoptera), the wings of the middle segment of the thorax have become thick and horny and serve as protective sheaths (elytra) of the membranous hindwings.

SCLERODERMA, which hardens the skin and then goes on to immobilise many of the body's internal organs, looks very different from multiple sclerosis, which cripples its victims by stripping away the protective sheaths of their nerve cells.