ensheathe
Americanverb (used with object)
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Origin of ensheathe
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Ador.There is a silentness That answers thee enow, That, like a brazen sound Excluding others, doth ensheathe us round,— Hear it.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Under its burnished belly slips a ray of eventide, The flickerings of a hundred glowing clouds its tenebrous side With scales of golden mail ensheathe.
From New Poems by Francis Thompson
This last specimen had essentially completed the autumnal molt into winter plumage, with only a few feathers remaining ensheathed basally.
From Vertebrates from the Barrier Island of Tamaulipas, M?xico by Richard F. Johnston
It leads into a straight alimentary canal whose walls consist of a layer of ciliated cells ensheathed in a thin layer of peritoneal cells.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
The blade was ensheathed in a strong fibrous capsule 1/2 inch thick, and the adjacent brain-structure was apparently normal.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
It is said that "the flowers occur in an enormous cluster, at first ensheathed by large and frequently wooden spathes, which often burst with an explosion."
From The Palm Tree Blessing by W. E. Shepard
The Uintah Mountains stretched out in the south, thrusting their peaks into the sky and shining as if ensheathed with silver.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 by Various
They also looked at the fly equivalent of microglia, called ensheathing glia, whose primary function is to remove neural debris, such as degenerating axons.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2023
Further tests revealed that artificial reduction of PI3k levels led to both insulin resistance and low Draper levels in ensheathing glia.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2023
Finally, they showed that after actually damaging olfactory neurons, the ensheathing glia could not remove the degenerating axons in the flies on the high sugar diet because their Draper levels did not increase.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2023
Raisman and Tabakow acknowledge in their paper that they can’t prove that the olfactory ensheathing cells from Fidyka’s brain alone made the difference.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 25, 2016
Indeed, for centuries the glands were not given a separate status as organs, but were passed up as part of the fat ensheathing the kidney.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
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