Sentences with phrase «tiny hairs called»

Tiny hairs called cilia sweep mucus out of your sinuses so it can drain out of your nose.

This micrograph image of an oak leaf ¹ s surface reveals bunches of tiny hairs called trichomes, which concentrate light for photosynthesis and reduce water loss.

Our lungs and nasal passages have exquisitely tiny hairs called cilia that sweep out impurities.

For years, the prevailing hypothesis was that these were a form of tiny hairs called pili, similar to those found on other types of bacteria.

The nose is an amazing filter lined with tiny hairs called «cilia», which help to filter, humidify and warm or cool air, therefore protecting your body from particles of foreign matters.

One of the sponge's cell types is the distinctively shaped choanocyte, a cell equipped with a tiny long filament, called a flagellum, surrounded by a collar studded with even tinier hairs called microvilli.

Not exact matches

In it, they describe a process by which nanodiamonds — tiny diamond particles 10,000 times smaller than the diameter of a hair — curtail the electrochemical deposition, called plating, that can lead to hazardous short - circuiting of lithium ion batteries.

New research suggests that fluid driven by tiny swirling hairs called cilia may activate certain genes in the growing embryo that lay the groundwork for this asymmetry.

We already knew that E. coli can grip to human cells using hair - like appendages that have tiny protein hooks on their tips, but until now no one had worked out the structure of this protein, called FimH, or how it interacts with human cells.

This ability, outlined today in the Journal of Applied Physics, is a remarkable mechanism in the toes of geckos that uses tiny, branched hairs called «seta» that can instantly turn their stickiness on and off, and even «unstick» their feet without using any energy.

Because human skin absorbs light and has the added complication of tiny hairs, it can be tricky to image clearly, but with the new device, called GelSight, pictures like the one above are easy to snap.

Tiny hair - like structures on cells lining your airways, called cilia, push the mucus back up to your throat.

In your intestinal tract, there reside very small micro-villi (thee are very tiny finger like projections which come off the lining of the intestinal tract with hair like cell membrane extensions — called the «brush border»), which serve as the major point of absorption of nutrients.

On that Tuesday in January, when her life changed forever, Martine Rhodes woke with a headache, developed a sour stomach after washing down two aspirin with grapefruit juice, guaranteed herself an epic bad - hair day by mistakenly using Dustin's shampoo instead of her own, broke a fingernail, burnt her toast, discovered ants swarming through the cabinet under the kitchen sink, eradicated the pests by firing a spray can of insecticide as ferociously as Sigourney Weaver wielded a flamethrower in one of those old extraterrestrial - bug movies, cleaned up the resultant carnage with paper towels, hummed Bach's Requiem as she solemnly consigned the tiny bodies to the trash can, and took a telephone call from her mother, Sabrina, who still prayed for the collapse of Martie's marriage three years after the wedding.

Their tongues come equipped with tiny barbs called papillae that help collect loose hairs, grit and dirt from the cat's hair as they lick.

The appendages include claws, sebaceous glands that lubricate the skin and hair, and tiny muscles called arrector pili that can make the hair stand on end (see Figure 1).

I was also invited, as an artist to produce one of these editions with a Chicago improv band called Tiny Hairs as my musical partner.