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Meaning of 鞘

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鞘
Pinyin: qiào
English Definition: scabbard; sheath
Chinese Definition:
①装刀、剑的套子:刀鞘。剑鞘。
Total strokes: 16; Radical: 革
Pictophonetic:肖 indicates the sound; 革 (leather) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • ⿰ Left to right
    • 革 [ gé ] leather, animal hide; to reform; to remove
    • 肖 [ xiào ] to resemble, to look like; to be like
Similar Characters: 靶
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Example Words
腱鞘炎 jiàn qiào yán tenosynovitis (medicine)
胚芽鞘 pēi yá qiào coleoptile, protective sheath covering an emerging shoot (botany)
髓鞘 suǐ qiào myelin sheath (membrane surrounding axon of nerve cell)
出鞘 chū qiào (of a sword etc) to unsheath
腱鞘 jiàn qiào tendon sheath (anatomy); epitendon
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Example Sentences
1
在脾红髓的淋巴细胞大部分是
B细胞
,
而在动脉周围淋巴鞘的是
T
细胞
。
In the spleen, most of the lymphocytes of the red pulp are B cells, whereas those of the periarteriolar lymphoid sheaths are T cells.
2
所有人都同意医学干涉毁掉了许多脊髓鞘
——
它们将许多神经纤维包裹在内
。
Everyone agrees that MS destroys the fatty myelin sheath that enwraps many nerve fibers.
3
当他剩下的鱼饵中有一块被咬住时
,
他就用自己那把带鞘的刀把钓丝给割断了
。
When something took one of his remaining baits, he cut the line with his sheath knife.
4
加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校的保罗
·
汤普森发现
,
智力与脂肪鞘质量之间是有关联的
。
Paul Thompson at the University of California, Los Angeles, has found a correlation between IQ and the quality of the sheaths.
5
他把剑放回鞘内
,
并为自己对仆人的挑战道歉
,
声称只是一个误会
,
然后快速地离开了
。
He drew his sword in its sheath and apologized for his defiance of the domestic, claiming a misunderstanding, and quickly left the scene.