ensheathe
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
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 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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 Thompson, Francis
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
She was a soul enmeshed in an ethereal body, rather than a body which ensheathed a soul.
From The Redemption of David Corson by Goss, Charles Frederic
The rectrices were partly ensheathed and the feather count extensively downy.
From Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula by Klaas, Erwin E.
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
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 Johnston, Richard F.
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
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
The same is the case for a range of glial cells, which create a stable environment for neurons by ensheathing them, providing nutrients, and defending against pathogens -- all important for a young, still-developing organ.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023
Tabakow pursued a Ph.D. in neuroscience, and for his dissertation he extracted ensheathing cells from human cadavers.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 25, 2016
In fact, the active cells are passing their daughters into the middle of the process, and these pass through similar stages as those derived from the ensheathing epidermis.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton
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