Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SHEATH


SHEATH

Definitions of SHEATH

  1. A holster for a sword; a scabbard.
  2. (by extension) Anything that has a similar shape to a scabbard that is used to hold an object that is longer than it is wide.
  3. (botany) The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a branch or stem, as in grasses.
  4. (electrical engineering) The insulating outer cover of an electrical cable.
  5. (entomology) One of the elytra of an insect.
  6. (fashion) A tight-fitting dress.
  7. (zoology) The foreskin of certain animals (for example, dogs and horses).
  8. (British, informal) A condom.
  9. Alternative spelling of sheathe.

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Examples of Using SHEATH in a Sentence

  • Central pontine myelinolysis is a neurological condition involving severe damage to the myelin sheath of nerve cells in the pons (an area of the brainstem).
  • However, unlike the plastic covering on an electrical wire, myelin does not form a single long sheath over the entire length of the axon.
  • In telecommunications, a filled cable is a cable that has a non-hygroscopic material, usually a gel called icky-pick, inside the jacket or sheath.
  • Scabbard, a sheath for holding a sword, dagger, knife, or similar edged weapons, as well as long guns, such as rifles and shotguns.
  • The beginning of Langmuir probe theory is the I–V characteristic of the Debye sheath, that is, the current density flowing to a surface in a plasma as a function of the voltage drop across the sheath.
  • Specifically, scar tissue forms in the tunica albuginea, the thick sheath of tissue surrounding the corpora cavernosa, causing pain, abnormal curvature, erectile dysfunction, indentation, loss of girth and shortening.
  • The term historically referred to swords, daggers, and similar small melee weapons kept at one's side in a sheath, and in modern combat dominated by ranged weapons, sidearms are often defined as handguns that are similarly kept in a holster.
  • Neurilemma (also known as neurolemma, sheath of Schwann, or Schwann's sheath) is the outermost nucleated cytoplasmic layer of Schwann cells (also called neurilemmocytes) that surrounds the axon of the neuron.
  • The mission also tested a system that had originally been designed for the cancelled Mercury-Atlas 10 mission, in which water was injected into the plasma sheath surrounding the capsule during re-entry.
  • The size and shape of the horns vary greatly, but the basic structure is always one or more pairs of simple bony protrusions without branches, often having a spiral, twisted or fluted form, each covered in a permanent sheath of keratin.
  • De Quervain syndrome occurs when two tendons that control movement of the thumb become constricted by their tendon sheath in the wrist.
  • Tenosynovitis is the inflammation of the fluid-filled sheath (called the synovium) that surrounds a tendon, typically leading to joint pain, swelling, and stiffness.
  • Iron is stored in many organisms in the form of ferritin, which is a ferrous oxide encased in a solubilizing protein sheath.
  • The housing is generally of composite construction, consisting of an inner lining, a longitudinally incompressible layer such as a helical winding or a sheath of steel wire, and a protective outer covering.
  • Since the first incarnation, the Bowie knife has come to incorporate several recognizable and characteristic design features, although in common usage the term refers to any large sheath knife with a crossguard and a clip point.
  • Whitebark pine is a member of the white pine group, the Pinus subgenus Strobus, and the section Strobus; like all members of this group, the leaves (needles) are in fascicles (bundles) of five with a deciduous sheath.
  • Conventional Langmuir probe theory assumes collisionless movement of charge carriers in the space charge sheath around the probe.
  • A solvation shell or solvation sheath is the solvent interface of any chemical compound or biomolecule that constitutes the solute in a solution.
  • It is a member of the white pine group, Pinus subgenus Strobus, and like all members of that group, the leaves ('needles') are in fascicles (bundles) of five, with a deciduous sheath.
  • It is a member of the white pine group, Pinus subgenus Strobus, and like all members of that group, the leaves ('needles') are in fascicles (bundles) of five, with a deciduous sheath.



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