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Scabbard :: Scabbard (n.) The case in which the blade of a sword, dagger, etc., is kept; a sheath..

Concave :: Concave (n.) A curved sheath or breasting for a revolving cylinder or roll.

Sheath :: Sheath (n.) Any sheathlike covering, organ, or part..

Sheathy :: Sheathy (a.) Forming or resembling a sheath or case.

Sheathed :: Sheathed (imp. & p. p.) of Sheath.

Myeloidin :: Myeloidin (n.) A substance, present in the protoplasm of the retinal epithelium cells, and resembling, if not identical with, the substance (myelin) forming the medullary sheaths of nerve fibers..

Sheathless :: Sheathless (a.) Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.

Intussuscepted :: Intussuscepted (a.) Received into some other thing or part, as a sword into a sheath; invaginated..

Neurokeratin :: Neurokeratin (n.) A substance, resembling keratin, present in nerve tissue, as in the sheath of the axis cylinder of medullated nerve fibers. Like keratin it resists the action of most chemical agents, and by decomposition with sulphuric acid yields leucin and tyrosin..

Mosquito :: Mosquito (n.) Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. 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. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are aquatic..

Sheathfish :: Sheathfish (n.) Same as Sheatfish.

Vaginula :: Vaginula (n.) A little sheath, as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses..

Vaginal :: Vaginal (a.) Of or pertaining to a vagina; resembling a vagina, or sheath; thecal; as, a vaginal synovial membrane; the vaginal process of the temporal bone..

Sheath :: Sheath (n.) One of the elytra of an insect.

Nonmedullated :: Nonmedullated (a.) Not medullated; (Anat.) without a medulla or marrow, or without a medullary sheath; as, a nonmedullated nerve fiber..

Tenosynovitis :: Tenosynovitis (n.) Inflammation of the synovial sheath enveloping a tendon.

Cot :: Cot (n.) A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger..

Invaginate :: Invaginate (v. t.) To insert as in a sheath; to produce intussusception in.

Perimysium :: Perimysium (n.) The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a muscle, and sends partitions inwards between the bundles of muscular fibers..

Sheathing :: Sheathing (n.) The casing or covering of a ship's bottom and sides; the materials for such covering; as, copper sheathing..

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