Sentences with phrase «through narrow tubes»

ONCE upon a time, there was an unconventional US entrepreneur who devised a revolutionary mode of transport that would send people hurtling through narrow tubes at high speeds.

This wasn't as fast as the researchers would have liked, but during these studies, they discovered that when a cell is squeezed through a narrow tube, small holes open in the cell membrane, allowing nearby molecules to diffuse into the cell.

Pressures within the arteries build up, requiring the heart to pump harder to push blood through the narrowed tubes to the lungs.

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So, by some form of voting system — I think it's closer to propawtional representation than furs past the post — the politicians get their constituents to vote online for their canine running mates, and then they have to do the «Doggy Dash» where they are forcibly raced through one of two narrow tubes.

Because of the narrow diameter of the xylem tubing, the degree of water tension, (vacuum) required to drive water up through the xylem can be easily attained through normal transpiration rates that often occur in leaves.»

Now, after more than a century of mystery, researchers think they have figured out what causes the jets: constant pulsations inside the sun that drive gas up through narrow, magnetically confined tubes.

She and her co-workers have synthesized tubes so narrow that atoms can only move through them in single file.

The surgery was carried out through a thin tube - like retractor that created a narrow path to the tumor.

They focused on sugars, which are produced in the leaves by photosynthesis and transported through tubes 20 times narrower than a human hair to roots and new shoots.

To ensure that these smaller breeds of hamsters and mice can easily forage through their environment, the tubes in this habitat are narrower, thereby facilitating their exploring throughout their home.

The oesophagus is a narrow, muscular tube that allows food to pass through on its way to the stomach.

According to Joanna Guglielmino, DVM, they are generally similar in appearance to a cigar or sausage, an elongated shape imparted by the narrow food tube (esophagus) through which a hairball passes on its adventurous journey from the cat's stomach to the outside world.

Because hairballs pass through the narrow esophagus on the way out, they often appear thin and tube - like, rather than round.

The stones form and get blocked in the urethra, the tube leading from the bladder to the outside, which narrows as it moves through the penis.

Hike through — yes, through — the Virgin River at The Narrows, head to The Subway for an enchanting tube - like gorge, or challenge yourself with an intense trek up to Angels Landing.

In anglioplasty, a thin tube with a balloon or other device on the end is first threaded through a blood vessel in the arm or groin up to the site of a narrowing or blockage in a coronary artery.