coiled body

Ortega leaned back comfortably on his long coiled body.

That swept back and forth as might the head of a great serpent elevated above a coiled body, waiting to strike.

They are actually rather timid, and will often hide their heads within their coiled bodies for protection.

Just give us a few minutes more, Wren was thinking when a coiled body dropped out of the trees, wrapped about Garth, and lifted him away.

The ettins are said to have descended from Grolantor and a monstrous serpent with a head on both ends of her coiled body.

The name coiled bodies comes from observation of electron microscopists Monneron and Bernhard.

Yet as the double-crosses pile up, and identities shift, the actor's coiled body and darting eyes almost succeed in writing their own story.

P80-coilin is a specific marker for coiled bodies, and demonstrates these bodies tend to be associated with the nucleolus when cells are not dividing.

The dragon opened its mouth wide, rows of ten-inch fangs gleaming horribly, and then its head shot forward, neck snapping like a snake's coiled body.

He heard a hiss, saw a black snake fan its head above its coiled body under a bush, and ran crying back to his house screaming: "A cobra!

Haplo turned back to the dragon-snake, who had rested quietly the entire time, its head on its coiled body, its eyes blinking lazily in the firelight.

Names used for CBs included "spere organelles", "Binnenkörper", "nucelolar bodies" or "coiled bodies".

Flipping the image horizontally and vertically reveals Ross' original conception of the Yellow Sign, which resembles a coiled body or tentacle with two tentacles branching upward.

Within the nucleus, the protein localizes to subnuclear bodies called gems which are found near coiled bodies containing high concentrations of small ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs).

Vishnu is usually portrayed as reclining on the coiled body of Adishesha, the Preeminent Serpent, a giant snake deity with multiple cobra heads.

Yet the loose-jointedness of his previously coiled body suggests a sadness offset by growth, the angry kid having become a man who accepts loss as an inevitable consequence of feeling.

I peeled the Fool's corpse from the floor, leaving an outline of his coiled body and a handful of golden strands of his hair to mark where he had died.

They were rediscovered by electron microscopists and named coiled bodies, according to their appearance as coiled threads on EM images, and later renamed after their discoverer.

Argyrophilic grain disease (AGD), another type of dementia, is marked by the presence of abundant argyrophilic grains and coiled bodies on microscopic examination of brain tissue.

Similar to Cajal bodies are Gemini of coiled bodies, or gems, whose name is derived from the Gemini constellation in reference to their close "twin" relationship with CBs.

These include Cajal bodies, Gemini of coiled bodies, polymorphic interphase karyosomal association (PIKA), promyelocytic leukaemia (PML) bodies, paraspeckles, and splicing speckles.

A nucleus typically contains between 1 and 10 compact structures called Cajal bodies or coiled bodies (CB), whose diameter measures between 0.2 m and 2.0 m depending on the cell type and species.

And Francis Bacon's conception of the figure as a writhing blur also seems to have played a role, minus the emotional torment, as reflected in the vague sensation of coiled bodies at the center of "In Bed in Venice."