fibrous substance

It is a fibrous substance that might block absorption of dietary fat and cholesterol.

The plastic cylinder, empty but covered in a fibrous substance, is implanted just under the abdominal muscle wall.

She felt Marthona's hand in the dark, and the soft, dry bits of some kind of fibrous substance it held.

One end of the enclosure was turning darker and becoming porous, as if it were made of some fibrous substance.

After treating different woods with nitric acid he obtained a fibrous substance common to all which he also found in cotton and other plants.

The Mighty Servant is a towering automaton composed of mysterious metals, crystal, and several unknown fibrous substances.

At Leeds Astbury studied the properties of fibrous substances such as keratin and collagen with funding from the textile industry.

Now, of course, this canal is filled with much the same strangely fibrous substance- the spinal cord- as the brain; and directly communicates with the brain.

The inflammatory process, if it lasts long enough, may harden the fluid and the resultant firm, fibrous substance (scarring) may replace the lung tissue.

The exterior green bark being pulled off as worthless, there remains a slender fibrous substance, which is carefully stripped from the stick, to which it closely adheres.

Because the pig cells will need nutrients from the blood, doctors must then wait several weeks for blood vessels to grow into the fibrous substance that surrounds the artificial organ.

Angel hair or siliceous cotton is a sticky, fibrous substance reported in connection with UFO sightings, or manifestations of the Virgin Mary.

While machine voices reported status to their reviving masters, the two humans barely managed to leap behind this cluster of spirelike objects, roughly the shape of idealized Jophur, but twice as tall and made of some moist, fibrous substance.

Having obtained a quantity sufficient for his purpose, he places it in a bag made of the net-like fibrous substance attached to all cocoa-nut trees, and compressing it over the bread-fruit, which being now sufficiently pounded, is put into a wooden bowl- extracts a thick creamy milk.