The glands enlarge and coalesce in clusters, sometimes forming large masses of hardened and inelastic glands.
The three filed past her, Sir Charles walking with a firm if inelastic tread.
A heavy, inelastic step creaked across the floor behind him.
To ascertain the amplitude, Mallet had to rely chiefly on the fissures made in very inelastic walls.
At this conspicuous reverse he sat on a chair until the teacher brought him forcibly out and precipitated him into the willing arms of a girl larger and, if possible, more inelastic than the others.
Were they darker than the shadow cast by the inelastic institution of matrimony?
They consist of tough, inelastic sheets of connective tissue, and are so placed that pressure on one side causes them to come together and shut up the passageway, while pressure on the opposite side causes them to open.
A good example of inelastic connective tissue in sheet form is in the mesentery which holds the organs of the abdominal cavity in place.
The tendons by which most of the muscles are attached to the bones upon which they pull are made up of inelastic connective tissue in the form of cords.
The inelastic fibers are found in places where a flexible, but unyielding support is required; the elastic fibers are located where elasticity is particularly important.
Most of the ligaments are of inelastic connective tissue, but those that fasten the separate vertebræ of the spinal column together are elastic, allowing of the bending in every direction which makes our backs as flexible as they are.
The prepuce was long, but not thick; nevertheless, it was inelastic and very firm.
He took her to luncheon when they reached the city and in the afternoon she went to a few old familiar shops, felt buoyant, and told herself that she would never consent to live in Philadelphia, as inelastic as brass.
Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a hardinelastic condition of the eyeball, with marked increase of tension within the eyeball.
It is also objected that the single tax would provide an inelastic taxation system.
The old national banking system was inelastic in two ways: first, it provided an inelastic supply of deposit credit; second, it provided an inelastic supply of currency or bank notes.
Keeping these facts in mind, there were two reasons why the supply of deposit credit was inelastic before 1913.
The employment of an inelastic substance, like coarse felt, between the furring of a wall and the lathing, would undoubtedly tend to destroy its ability to reflect the “pulse of sound.
They are, First, inelastic air--which cannot transmit its pulses to the ear.
Contraction of muscular fibers of the gluteus medius causes extension of the femur and muscular strain is prevented to a great degree by the inelastic portion of this muscle.
The ends of the muscles are generally attached to the bone by strong, flexible, but inelastic tendons.
It was only ten years since Elizabeth’s accession, and even in this short period Philip’s perverse and inelastic policy had reduced him to a position of comparative impotence.
What effect has aninelastic band upon the lower part of the chest?
Any inelastic band, drawn closely around the lower part of the chest, or the abdomen, below the ribs, operates like the band in the preceding illustration, in restricting the movement of the ribs.
Fluid bodies are of two kinds, inelastic fluids, or liquids, and elastic fluids, or gases.
The process in which this and other Federal Reserve Banks have been engaged is the substitution, as a circulating medium, of a note which is elastic in quality for the inelastic gold certificate.
By calling the notes inelasticwe mean that their volume does not correspond automatically to the need for currency.
A force which is sufficient to send blood through elastic normal distributing tubes becomes totally insufficient to send the same amount of blood through tortuous and more or less inelastic tubes.
Footnote 23: When a cast sheet of inelastic bronze or brass is hammered or rolled, it "feathers.
Something about a bit of learning being an inelastic rebound.
Happily, this disgusting exhibition is forbidden by the imperfect state of their civilisation and the inelasticquality of their environment.
McCalloway rose slowly from his chair and, after standing for a moment with shoulders that drooped from their military erectness, went with an inelasticstep to the corner of the room and came back, carrying a sword.
His tone changed and again he spoke as a lawyer weighing the inelastic force of facts.
