Sentence examples for ring of tissue from inspiring English sources

Thus, on looking directly into the eye from in front one sees the white sclera surrounding the cornea; because the latter is transparent one sees, instead of the cornea, a ring of tissue lying within the eye, the iris.

Flower: corolla 4--8 mm, pink to purple or lobes white, each with purple streak centrally, ring of tissue at base free from filament column appendages, lobes +- spreading to +- erect.

Flower: corolla 1.5--3 mm, yellow, in age orange, ring of tissue at base 0, lobes erect-incurved, meeting above anther head, adaxially concave (hood-like); filament column appendages +- 0. Fruit: generally 1, 4--6 cm.

Now, this is a collar here, which is made of a textile that can be sewn into the spot, to the ring of tissue where the heart valve goes.

(The ciliary body is a ring of tissue directly behind the outer rim of the iris; besides being the source of aqueous humour, it contains the muscle that flattens the curvature of the lens for far vision).

How else could we examine closely the way a ponyfish, swimming near the Indonesian coast, glows from within, its light coming from a ring of tissue packed with bioluminescent bacteria?

In Equisetum, we immunodetected the MLG epitope in the thickened cell walls of the strengthening tissue and the epidermis, as well as in cell walls of a continuous ring of parenchymatous tissue located between the central cavity and the vascular bundles.

Occasionally, a ring of liver tissue immediately surrounding the lesion may be spared from fatty change, producing an irregular halo of denser tissue within an otherwise homogeneous liver.

The myotubes were placed in a petri dish, around a central hub made of gel, and fed a diet of plant-derived amino acids, sugars and fats.Muscle cells' natural tendency to contract and relax meant that the myotubes, once anchored to the hub, wrapped around it, bulked up through continued exercise regime of contraction and relaxation and coalesced into a ring of muscle tissue.

Annular pancreas is a rare anomaly in which a ring of pancreatic tissue encircles the second portion of the duodenum.

Papazoglou, A.A. and Barr, R.C., A model of sustained propagation in a 20-cell ring of Purkinje tissue, Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.