slenderness

slender | American Dictionary

slender
adjective
us/ˈslen·dər/
thin:
The slender book runs all of 150 pages.
Sarane is a tall, slender man.

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slender
The extracted worms were whitish, slender, cylindrical with tapered ends, consistent with nematodes and highly motile.
When first transmitted to a mammal, trypanosomes have a long, slender morphology and these forms are not infectious to the tsetse.
A committed slender cell undergoes about 5 divisions before exiting the cell-cycle.
In the early passages after obtaining the parasites from mouse blood, the parasites released from cells on day 4 contained up to 50 % slender forms.
The full-figured woman's backside is the focus of attention, while the slender woman is presented frontally.
Admirably, the slender volume does not provide easy answers, nor does it present ethical questions in an either-or dichotomy.
Trypanosomes are able to regulate their own density by slender to stumpy cell differentiation when their density passes a critical threshold.
Although in the experiments, slender, intermediate and stumpy cells were counted, we choose to include intermediate cells in the stumpy class.
There appear to be two mechanisms that can induce slender cell differentiation.
The lobes of the ninth tergite in breinli are longer and more slender and bear more hairs (fig. 10, d, h).
The mesosome has a slender, smooth, blunt-tipped, long projection and a short pointed one (fig. 13, b).
The dentary is long and slender and is dorsoventrally tallest at its caudal margin.
Following these, there are nine pairs of thin and slender ribs, of which the six posteriormost attach on the haemal arches and spines.
The equations governing the evolution of a slender inviscid drop in an axisymmetric flow are derived in the following section.
The chapter on slender wing methods and their application to unsteady flow problems is fairly comprehensive and is a most valuable part of the monograph.
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