- Look up
sheath in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Sheath,
pronounced /ʃiːθ/, may
refer to: Scabbard, a
sheath for
holding a sword, dagger, knife, or similar...
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sufficient protection,
sheaths made of soft materials, such as leather,
often have reinforcements,
inside or
outside of the
sheath, made of
metal sheet...
- A
tendon sheath is a
layer of
synovial membrane around a tendon. It
permits the
tendon to
stretch and not
adhere to the
surrounding fascia. It contains...
- palaemonids, and calanoids.
These myelin-like
sheaths share several structural features with the
sheaths found in
vertebrates including multiplicity of...
- The
femoral sheath (also
called the
crural sheath) is a funnel-shaped
downward extension of
abdominal fascia within which the
femoral artery and femoral...
- The
rectus sheath (also
called the
rectus fascia) is a
tough fibrous compartment formed by the
aponeuroses of the
transverse abdominal muscle, and the...
-
synovial sheath is one of the two
membranes of a
tendon sheath which covers a tendon. The
other membrane is the
outer fibrous tendon sheath. The tendon...
- In fashion, a
sheath dress is a ****ed,
straight cut dress,
often nipped at the
waistline with no
waist seam. When
constructing the dress, the
bodice and...
- The
carotid sheath is a
condensation of the deep
cervical fascia: 578
enveloping multiple vital neurovascular structures of the neck,
including the common...
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consists of two
strata named respectively the
outer and
inner root
sheaths. The
outer root
sheath corresponds with the
stratum mucosum (stratum
germinativum and...
