Sentences with phrase «like tiny hairs»

Aside from greater autonomy and resiliency, Ferrari said her lab plans to help outfit RoboBee with new micro devices such as a camera, expanded antennae for tactile feedback, contact sensors on the robot's feet and airflow sensors that look like tiny hairs.

The airs easy to lose (just the touch of a button at the head of the mattress), but I have to climb out of bed to get what looks like a tiny hair dryer to reinflate it.

Not exact matches

For the most part, hair is left untouched, except for a tiny section, which is dyed to look like a prism.

I don't have a lot of time before the tinies come stumbling down the hall, hair sticking up like rooster tails and yawning while already talking a mile a minute.

That's like you snipping off the tiniest bit of one hair, knowing it will grow back.

The bible is like an ancient History channel «Monster Quest» show, where every week they find a tiny bit of hair, or slight indentation that they claim must be evidence of Bigfoot, but somehow they never find him...

«Menthol cough drops not only dry out your throat, but paralyze the cilia — the tiny hair - like projections all along the airways.»

Secretly, we've only included this because we quite like the idea that the tiny island of hair on the top of Steve McClaren's forehead might also be a whale, albeit a tiny one, and that at some point this season it's just going to shudder into life, then slip back into his skull, never to be seen again.)

And she was perfect: the most beautiful shade of pink I had ever seen; a mouth like a tiny bow; a head full of strawberry blonde hair.

There's nothing like the surprise of a pair of tiny hands, suddenly violently pulling at mom's hair.

Like, how can such a tiny little body produce so much poop, that it leaks out of a diaper and gets all over a baby's back and clothes and hair and legs?!

Hairspray consists of tiny polymer beads that must hold hair in place, he explains, and «that's like taking a spot of glue and putting it between two huge steel levers and expecting it to hold the levers in place.»

Instead, Menda's method creates a very tiny hole that seals, like a self - sealing tire, around a hair - sized tungsten microelectrode.

Both had what looked like tiny barbed hairs stuck to their bodies — these hairlike structures are frequently found on beetle larvae that hung out in dinosaur nests.

When bats echolocate, they emit rapid - fire, high - frequency clicks (usually out of range of human hearing), then swivel their ears like radar dishes to catch the echoes, a system sensitive enough to detect objects as thin as a human hair and tiny, night - flying insects.

The researchers incubate cells with tiny snippets of single - stranded DNA engineered to slip into the cells» outer membranes, covering each cell like the hairs on a tennis ball.

The tiny claws are well - suited to clasping tiny fibres, like miniature hair on plant and animal surfaces.

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.

Once the egg is released from an ovary and enters the Fallopian tube, the hair - like cilia that line this tiny tube sweep the egg toward the uterus.

The mother comes down with her tiny babythe little bald thing with the hair sticking out like a chickenbrings the little baby down and falls in love with him.

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.

Symbion is a tiny animal about half a millimetre long, shaped like a bulbous tube with a ring of tiny hairs — cilia — at one end.

ROWERS Thousands of tiny hairs, or cilia, line a paramecium's outer edge and work like oars to propel it through the water.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have used a combination of brainpower and computer power to identify a multitude of new genes that control the formation of tiny, hair - like cilia that...

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

Every time you inhale, tiny hairs inside your nostrils act as filters, trapping particles like pollen and dust.

I'm only on my third batch of broccoli sprouts, but I have found this to be true; it's amazing how much the tiny root hairs look like white mold, but they're not mold, and they do rinse right off.

«The Caco - 2 is a single layer of cells grown in a laboratory environment that develops the characteristics and functions of the micro-villi, the tiny hair - like projections that aid efficient absorption found mainly in the small intestine,» Dr Opara said.

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.

I plan on rubbing a little on a tiny area of her skin like on her hand or forearm before applying a bunch on her hair / scalp to check for any reaction or irritation.

The lactase enzyme necessary to digest milk lactose is secreted by the tip of the villi, which are tiny, hair - like cells that line your small intestine.

Facial rejuvenation acupuncture treatment involves inserting tiny, hair - like needles into the face and the body.

The nettle plant's sting doesn't come from spikes like a thistle, but hundreds of tiny, hollow hairs lining the stems and undersides of the leaves.

Now please don't get confused with the amino acid L - glutamine because glutamate is converted to glutamine by cells lining the intestinal tract, which, in turn, is used by the villi (tiny hair like projectiles in intestinal lining) to maintain their health and integrity.

When the body's immune system overreacts to gluten in food, the reaction damages the tiny, hair - like projections (villi) that line the small intestine.

After you secture everything with a clear hair tie, add in silver rings like Hough, or even tiny flowers if that's more your style.

Kim Kardashian never learned how to braid, and therefore is like a tiny lost baby lamb (AKA a total n00b) when it comes to styling her daughter's hair.

Like, I was obsessed and trotted all over town wearing my new oversized, woven cap because it was seriously the most perfect winter accessory... it didn't flatten out my hair, it was the ideal neutral cream color, and it fit my tiny head really, really well.

well 1st off i will explain a lil wat i look like im very tiny i have blonde hair blue eyes tan skin i have a VERY nice body and ass as told by alot of people im on here looking to have fun so if ur intrested and wan na no more get at me!!!

From his oiled hair, to his unctuous smile, the Janus - like man with the soft, feminine voice is expertly portrayed by Hoffman, causing even the tiny detail of Capote's constant eye - shifting to become unsettling; it's as though all his different sides are on display simultaneously, each one masked by another.

In the film, we follow street puppeteer Craig (John Cusack, looking like a small, humming pile of hair) as he confronts the economic viability of his chosen occupation by getting an admin job on the 7 1/2 floor of a building that also happens to hide a tiny door which leads, if one crawls through cobwebs and puddles, to the inside of John Malkovich's head, wherein for 15 minutes the brain tourist can vicariously live through famous actor John Malkovich's eyes before getting spit up into a ditch off the New Jersey Turnpike.

Leah has dyed her long straggly hair platinum - white, and her vampirish pale skin, white tank tops and tiny white sundresses make her look like a deranged wraith, floating through the about - to - be-gentrified streets of Ridgewood, Queens.

Fincher's remarks are roughly an even mix of big and small, addressing his personal memories and connections to the film's material as well as tiny scene - specific details (like having to digitally remove hair from a double's hands).

She would rock her body from side to side, her neglected, will - o - the - wisp hair spreading its static on the sofa, fingers digging rigidly into her arms until they left bruises shaped like tiny petals.

When it is not properly brushed, the scales stick up like tiny barbs, these small barbs catch loose, wooly undercoat hairs, dirt and debris, knotting and tangling them into a mass of solid hair that is almost impossible to comb through

Papillae are tiny hair - like barbs made of keratin, and they help cats groom their fur, and they aid in eating.

(it often looks like tiny square blocks), and can be found on the skin at the base of each hair.

Flea dirt looks like tiny dark brown particles on the skin at the base of the hair shafts.

When your cat grooms himself, tiny hook - like structures on his tongue catch loose and dead hair, which is then swallowed.

Visually it reminded me a lot of Assassin's Creed Black Flag which is pretty good, but what really blew me away were the tiny details like Drake putting his hand up when his head got too close to the rocks passing through the cave, or when in combat, he gets slammed against the wall and the tiny stream of water going down the rocks made his hair and upper body wet.