Protrusions

... islands did not exhibit any preferential direction of force application, but they exerted their strongest traction at sites where they formed protrusions . When cells were confined to squares, traction was highest in the corners both in the absence and presence of the contractile agonist, ...

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... has received much attention recently, is the foot of a gecko. The gecko's foot is covered with hundreds of thousands of "hair"-like protrusions which dictate a gecko's precise control of adhesion through van der Waals forces.(1) In our research, we fabricate controlled structures ...

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... diameter of 1-1.5 mm and a length of 3-10 mm. It grows in culture as gray-white colonies that measure 4-5 mm and have characteristic comma-shaped protrusions. Anthrax is differentiated from other gram-positive rods on culture by lack of hemolysis and motility and by preferential growth on phenylethyl ...

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... horror movie. A search on the Internet reveals dozens of people who have posted magnified photos of their symptoms -- usually twisted, thread-like protrusions from the skin and sometimes hazy images that look like small bugs. It doesn't help convince skeptical doctors that many sufferers complain ...

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... not fibrous under a microscope. They look translucent, flattened, and as if they have been extruded, not woven. They have barbs (thorn-like protrusions) every so often as if the designer or manufacturer wanted them to stick one to another or to something else. FIBERS / FILAMENTS WE ARE BREATHING ...

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