Definition of Insheathed

1. Verb. (past of insheathe) ¹

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Definition of Insheathed

1. insheath [v] - See also: insheath

Medical Definition of Insheathed

1. Enclosed in a sheath or capsule. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Insheathed

insessorial
insessors
inset
insets
insetted
insetter
insetters
insetting
inseverable
inshaded
inshallah
inshave
inshaves
insheath
insheathe
insheathed (current term)
insheathes
insheathing
insheaths
inshell
inshelled
inshells
inship
inshipped
inships
inshoot
inshore
inshoring
inshrine
inshrined

Literary usage of Insheathed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Microscopical Morphology of the Animal Body in Health and Disease by Carl Heitzmann (1882)
"At the periphery the cavernous body is insheathed by a layer of very dense, fibrous connective tissue— the tunica albuginea—which is also provided with ..."

2. The Anatomy of the Nervous System from the Standpoint of Development and by Stephen Walter Ranson (1920)
"Nerve-fibers are axons naked or insheathed. Two myelinated peripheral nene-fibers are shown in Fig. 26. The axon or axis-cylinder is composed of ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1826)
"... vexed and then irritated with the pieces of choking soft armour in which, five or six ply thick, his inviting carcase was so provokingly insheathed ! ..."

4. The Fertilisation of Flowers by Hermann Müller (1883)
"To reach honey which lies less deeply, the bee need not rotate the retractors (2); the tongue therefore remains constantly insheathed by the lamina; ..."

5. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1913)
"On the internal casts the annulations have the aspect of insheathed cones, the slope being abrupt below and gradual above. The width of the annulations is ..."

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