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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
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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