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  • noun Plural form of tubule.

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Examples

  • • Sections of the kidneys known as tubules, an area where waste materials are concentrated into urine, showed mild to moderate dilation - a sign that cells there were farther apart than normal.

    unknown title 2009

  • These are the same kind of tubules seen in Sickbay in Act One.

    Becoming Human: The Seven of Nine™ Saga Various Authors 1998

  • In addition, adult respiratory distress syndrome has been reported. 10 Cardiovascular instability with severe hypotension and metabolic acidosis may predominate due to the volume depletion, cardiac failure and arrhythmias. 13 Oliguric renal failure develops due to pre-renal azotemia, myoglobinuria and a direct toxic effect of colchicine on the renal tubules.

    Colchicine Poisoning 2010

  • Eventually this leads to the tubules, like tiny pipelines, in the trunk.

    O Tannenbaum ewillett 2009

  • Straw-like dentin tubules transmit pain to the tooth's nerve when exposed to heat or cold, acidic soft drinks or bleach in tooth whiteners.

    You have your nerve protected by toothpaste 2011

  • This Boba Fett costume project has been floating around the interconnected web tubules for a couple of years.

    He’s Flying-ish!: Boba Fett Costume [Cosplay] 2010

  • An FSH level greater than two to three times normal suggests a severe impairment in the tubules within the testicles that help create sperm.

    A Baby at Last! Mark L. Fuerst 2010

  • What might become sperm ducts in males become the epoophoron in females, a cluster of useless dead-end tubules near the ovaries.

    Evolutionary Tail Fins? 2008

  • Evolution sceptic: Professor Haldane, even given the billions of years that you say were available for evolution, I simply cannot believe it is possible to go from a single cell to a complicated human body, with its trillions of cells organized into bones and muscles and nerves, a heart that pumps without ceasing for decades, miles and miles of blood vessels and kidney tubules, and a brain capable of thinking and talking and feeling.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • Medical research has confirmed that thimerosal demyelinates Purkinje axons and micro-tubules producing problems with balance and coordination, learning, communication and neurologically wired panic.

    Jett Travolta, Seizures, Autism GreenFertility 2009

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