Sentences with phrase «of a pencil eraser»

Once the anesthetic has taken effect, the doctor will make a minimum of 2 small incisions, each incision being about the size of a pencil eraser tip, and remove the necessary quantity of fat with a water - assisted suction device.

They grow in pods that contain either one or two lentil seeds that are round, oval or heart - shaped disks and are oftentimes smaller than the tip of a pencil eraser.

In a study published online today in The Lancet, researchers cut a flat chunk about the diameter of a pencil eraser out of the septum dividing participants» nostrils, then broke down the tissue with enzymes and grew the cells on a porous membrane.

The skin biopsy takes a small, 3 mm - wide sample of tissue (about half the width of a pencil eraser) and can be performed in a doctor's office.

Also get moles that are large than the diameter of a pencil eraser checked.

He manages to ingratiate his way into the family and becomes the manager of a pencil eraser plant.

A few days later, he told her about a lab in Columbus, Ohio, that was making fuel cells the size of pencil erasers.

Place the eraser side of a pencil on the nose, point the pencil at an object across the room and trace the object with the point of the pencil while keeping the eyes on the tip of the pencil

The result was a durable electrode 8 millimeters across, about the diameter of a pencil eraser, that surgeons can implant on the carotid artery with just a tiny incision, and a longer - lasting battery that minimizes replacement operations.

NIF's 192 powerful laser beams, housed in a 10 - story building the size of 3 football fields, can deliver nearly 2 million joules of ultraviolet laser energy in billionth - of - a-second pulses onto a target about the size of a pencil eraser.

Q: Sir, I am looking for a pepper that is round, about the size of a pencil eraser.

I am looking for a pepper that is round, about the size of a pencil eraser.

The dart «takes a little plug of skin and blubber... about the size of a pencil eraser,» Gabriele says.

Mini-brains 3 to 4 millimetres across have been grown in the lab before, but if a larger brain had been created — and the press release publicising the claim said it was the size of a pencil eraser — that would be a major breakthrough.

Iliffe thinks the tiny creatures — about the size of a pencil eraser — might use these appendages to clean themselves and then eat whatever bacteria they've cleaned off their bodies.

At NIF, that reaction will take place inside this tiny gold cylinder, which is the size of a pencil eraser.

The target is a gold - plated cylinder the size of a pencil eraser (8.4 millimetres by 4.6 millimetres), called a hohlraum.

At the University of Waterloo in Ontario, microroboticist Behrad Khamesee has developed a flying robot about the size of a pencil eraser.

The individual spiders are only the size of a pencil eraser, but they form organized groups that can catch prey ranging from fruit flies to small vertebrates.

With an elastic consistency similar to that of a pencil eraser, the impeller's blades can fold down for insertion into a three - millimeter - diameter sheath, yet are firm enough to pump more than four liters of blood per minute with a pressure rise of one - tenth of an atmosphere — the capacity of a healthy adult male's heart.

The lab - grown brain, about the size of a pencil eraser, has an identifiable structure and contains 99 percent of the genes present in the human fetal brain.

Despite being so tiny — the biggest species» growing to the size of a pencil eraser — they have flashy back sides that display a full rainbow of color.

It was the size of a pencil eraser.

Not too shabby for something the size of a pencil eraser.

These round, oval or heart - shaped disks are small in size, oftentimes smaller than the tip of a pencil eraser.

They grow in pods that contain either one or two lentil seeds that are round, oval or heart - shaped disks and are oftentimes smaller than the tip of a pencil eraser.

And the patch of dead pixels was about the size of a pencil eraser and smack dead center of the reading area.

And in another case, one of the oncologists Silver works with was giving a CBD - rich hemp product to a patient who had a large tumor on the tongue and after six weeks the tumor reduced to the size of a pencil eraser, Silver says.