Sentence examples for stiff rod from inspiring English sources

The chordate notochord is a stiff rod with a turgid core and fibrous sheath.

notochord -- Characteristic of chordates, the notochord is a stiff rod of tissue along the back of the body.

Tadpole tails have a stiff rod called the notochord for support, whereas salamanders possess a backbone, composed of vertebrae.

Some invertebrates known as sea squirts, for example, develop the same kind of stiff rod that vertebrates form in their back as embryos, known as a notochord.

This molecule is referred to as the F-duplex, and is a model for a stiff rod as depicted in blue.

In place of the vertebral column, the earliest vertebrates had a fully developed notochord, a flexible stiff rod of viscous cells surrounded by a strong fibrous sheath.

To build the switches, the researchers designed and constructed stiff, rod-shaped molecules known as oligomers.

Irradiation with light at a specific wavelength causes the stiff rod-like molecules to bend which dilutes the orientational order and thus causes deformation.

Aromatic compounds, 6-hydroxyl-2-naphthoic acid, 2,6-naphthlenedicarboxylic acid, 4-hydroxybenzoic acid or terephthalic acid, were used as polycyclic stiff rod-like mesogenic groups.

This mechanical response is modulated by calcium ions at both low and high force, switching from a stiff, rod-like to a soft, spring-like behavior upon removal of ions.

Basket chair, chair made from plaited twigs, or osiers, shaped on a warp of stiff rods.