coiled

coil | American Dictionary

coil
noun[ C ]
us/kɔɪl/
a length of rope or wire curled to form a series of circles, one above the other:
Rob raised the heavy coil of rope to his shoulder.
A coil is also anything having the shape of a series of circles, one above the other:
A coil of smoke rose from the chimney.

coil

verb[ I/T ]us/kɔɪl/
[ T ]She coiled my hair, clipping curls with bobby pins.

Examples of coil

coil
This embolized to the pulmonary artery, was retrieved and replaced with an 8 mm coil.
The foamy wavelets curled up to her white feet, and coiled like serpents about her ankles.
Successful transcatheter closure of ventricular septal defects with retrievable coils is feasible even in close proximity to cardiac valves.
In the vessels with subtotal occlusion, a mean of 2.5 coils had been placed (p=ns).
The mean diameter of those three vessels where dislocation of coils occurred was 6.7 + 1.5 mm (range 5 - 8 mm) (p=ns).
Two abnormal systemic vessels supplying the sequestered lower part of the right lung were embolized using catheter-inserted coils.
Furthermore, both the tube and the coil are surrounded by the tube cooling, which protects the quartz tube from overheating.
The electrical pulses are directed through a copper coil, shaped in a figure eight, which is placed against the human's scalp.
They behave as random coils, in which the relative orientations of widely separated segments are essentially uncorrelated.
Combining the internal plasma current and external coil currents, we generate twisted magnetic field lines in the plasma.
The axial magnetic field was created by two magnetic coils.
No changes are found in the backbone conformation of the -helical bundle itself, indicating rather stable and rigid structure of the four -helical coiled coil.
This avoided the use of compensating field coils.
The search coil was placed at 10 locations around the coil.
The output of this coil is amplified using a differential amplifier and a scaling amplifier.
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Collocations withcoil

coil

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condenser coil
The cold evaporator coil of the refrigeration device condenses the water, which is removed, and then the air is reheated by the condenser coil.
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