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His pulse was thready and fast, his belly distended, his bowel ominously silent.
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Claire Panosian Dunavan, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2011
Simard’s transformative contribution to arboreal science has been to explain the function of mycorrhizal networks—a webbing of thready fungi, reticulated through and expanding beyond tree roots, fastening trees to one another in the soil.
—Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 17 June 2021
Similar to Sporothrix, Coccidioides has two forms, starting with a thready, fragile one that exists in soil and breaks apart when soil is disturbed.
—Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 19 May 2021
Many patients, despite a thready pulse and low blood pressure, did not appear to be in clinical shock.
—Jennet Conant, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
Those on the brink of death — pale complexion, thready pulse — got red.
—Matt Hamilton, latimes.com, 4 Oct. 2017
Mushrooms grow from a thready substance called mycelia that sits just underground, spreading across a region to encourage growth of the fungi fruit.
—Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
Mushrooms grow from a thready substance called mycelia that sits just underground, spreading across a region to encourage growth of the fungi fruit.
—Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
Claire Panosian Dunavan, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2011
Simard’s transformative contribution to arboreal science has been to explain the function of mycorrhizal networks—a webbing of thready fungi, reticulated through and expanding beyond tree roots, fastening trees to one another in the soil.
—Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 17 June 2021
Similar to Sporothrix, Coccidioides has two forms, starting with a thready, fragile one that exists in soil and breaks apart when soil is disturbed.
—Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 19 May 2021
Many patients, despite a thready pulse and low blood pressure, did not appear to be in clinical shock.
—Jennet Conant, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
Those on the brink of death — pale complexion, thready pulse — got red.
—Matt Hamilton, latimes.com, 4 Oct. 2017
Mushrooms grow from a thready substance called mycelia that sits just underground, spreading across a region to encourage growth of the fungi fruit.
—Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
Mushrooms grow from a thready substance called mycelia that sits just underground, spreading across a region to encourage growth of the fungi fruit.
—Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
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“Thready.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thready. Accessed 15 Sep. 2024.
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