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Each appendage also has sheathlike tissues wrapping around each joint, making them more elastic, and better able to extend and contract.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 25, 2022

The tendon crosses over to the medial surface of the tarsometatarsus, passes distally, and perforates the sheathlike tendon of the m. flexor hallucis brevis between the first metatarsal and the trochlea for digit II.

From Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae A Taxonomic Study by Stallcup, William B.

The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section M, N, and O by Project Gutenberg

In this region the tendon is sheathlike and wrapped around the tendon of the m. flexor perforatus digiti IV.

From Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae A Taxonomic Study by Stallcup, William B.

He found Lady Sunderbund looking very tall and radiantly beautiful in a sheathlike dress of bright crimson trimmed with snow-white fur and a white fur toque.

From Soul of a Bishop by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)