Illustration: The needle used for implantation of yttrium-90 pellets into the pituitary gland is shown in the top photograph.
In the center X ray the needle is in place and the pellets have just been passed through it into the bone area surrounding the pituitary gland.
The bottom X ray shows the needle withdrawn and the pellets within the bone.
He felt the tug of the line; heard the labored breathing of the next horse behind, but saw nothing except that wall of swirling snow pellets hurled against him by a pitiless wind, fairly lacerating the flesh.
Hamlin turned in the saddle, feeling already the sharp sting of snow pelletson his face.
Scattered pellets of snow in the air lashed the faces of the troopers, who rode steadily forward, the capes of their overcoats thrown over their heads for protection.
Like the pelletsof pollen, it is carried on the posterior tibiae, but the masses are lenticular[236].
Of those that fly abroad, what conception can we form of the cause which, while one set is gathering honey or pollen, leads another company to load their legs withpellets of propolis?
About that hour all that enter the hive may be seen with their pellets in their baskets; but during the rest of the day the number of those so furnished is small in comparison of those that are not.
If the contents of one of the little pellets be examined under a lens, it will be found that the grains have all retained their original shape.
You paid no attention to anything; you did nothing but roll dirty pellets of bread in your fat fingers.
Not one of those millions of pellets that came down from Germany was used against a soldier.
In their haste the Germans left these pellets everywhere along the route.
It also may have been a symbol of a lunar month from an above-mentioned belief, namely, that its pellets remain twenty-eight days in the ground.
Valerianus, the Scarab was symbolical of the world, on account of the globular form of its pellets of dung, and from an odd notion that they were rolled from sunrise to sunset.
Pellets from roosts of resident crows were collected on a year round basis in eastern Harvey County near Newton (see tables 1 and 2).
Data From Analysis of Pellets Data obtained from the analysis of pellets were grouped in biweekly collections, and percentages of various food residues in the pellets collected within each biweekly period were averaged.
Fifty-three collections of pellets were made throughout the year at regular intervals, except that none was made in January, March, or May.
After mid-July pellets were common under one small roost.
Although no field observations were made on feeding behavior in April, the large percentage of oat hulls found in the pellets suggests that newly sown fields of oats must have been one of the major feeding grounds in that month.
However, few pelletswere collected in the nesting season.
The amount of fish bones, crayfish, and snail shells in the pellets decreased during this period.
During most of the summer, pellets were difficult to find because the roosts were small, shifting, and scattered and because few pellets were produced.
The collections of pellets from roosts of wintering crows in western Harvey County and northeastern Reno County differed in having a higher percentage of plant material.
Nevertheless, data from analysis of pellets when supplemented by field observations, should serve as a sound basis for valid conclusions concerning the relative proportions of various foods eaten.
Plowing was a major farm operation at the season when pellets were most scarce.
In certain pellets that I studied, part of the wheat or other grain was undigested or partly digested, whereas in other pellets the only residue was finely divided chaff.
One limitation of data based on material from pellets is the impossibility of closely correlating the volume of indigestible residues with the proportion of food items actually eaten.
Only a few questionable fragments from insect larvae were found in the pellets collected in the course of this study.
The staff-head and two of the gold beads or pellets are now in the Museum of the Scottish Antiquaries.
Illustration] The most primitive form of Scottish coinage is evidently the simple gold pellets usually marked with a cross in relief.
Taking off the cover he disclosed to view some pelletsthat were coated with what looked like silver.
It was an easy matter to cut out a portion of the tobacco from the smoking end of each cigar, and this done Tom inserted three of the pellets in each.
But no more "worms" were forthcoming, for the reason that the pellets Tom had placed within had burnt themselves out.
Without a moment's rest, she adds her pellets to the growing walls and then back she goes to the precise spot where she has found the building material that best suits her needs.
The ant fastened a little mass of earth on the end of a grass stalk growing near to bend it over; then gnawed it a little at the bottom to make it bend still more, and finally fixed it with mud pellets into the roof.
On the carpet he found one of the two paper pellets which he had dropped from his fingers the previous evening.
Unseen by Platzoff, he contrived to drop thesepellets on the carpet.
As noted on page 321, minute pellets of pure palagonite are not infrequent in the residue.
A number of curious little pellets of palagonite, oblong or oval in form, occur in the residue.
At last one marksman, more knowing than the rest, loaded his gun with some pellets of a consecrated wafer in addition to the usualpellets of lead.
At some of the holes on the mounds ants will be seen busily at work, bringing up little pellets of earth from below, and casting them down on the ever-increasing mounds, so that its surface is nearly always fresh and new-looking.
The surface of the ground looks all alike, and it is with exclamations of wonder that we see our little guide lift two pellets of earth which have served as a covering to a small opening running down into the ground.
The trunks were succeeded by pot-guns made with hollow pieces of elder, or of quills, the pellets being thrust into them by the means of a ramrod.
Sometimes pellets of clay were used instead of the arrows.
So great was the rush of human affairs that people found little time [Nutritious Pellets for Lunch.
The pellets must contain cannabis indica (hashish) I guess.
Guilloche pattern of two bands without pellets around the edge of the panel.
Brass bottle, hung by chain, and ornamented with representation of twisted twine, and a guilloche pattern without pellets round the swell.
Plate XX, and a horizontal band of guilloche pattern with pellets in relief.
Countless trips are made to the puddle before a sufficient number of pellets are worked into the deep mud walls of the ample nursery.
When there is a nestful of fledglings to feed, sticky little pellets of insects, caught on the wing, are carried to them by both parents from daylight to dusk.
Did you ever see them gathering pellets of wet soil in their bills at some roadside puddle?
Fisher found the skulls of four hundred and fifty-four small mammals in the pellets cast about their home.
A tiny pebble was placed, then a few pellets of soil were added.
The Lieutenant peeped into the hole and saw the brown body and limbs of the Pixie queen already partly covered with pellets of clay.
I looked round for the twig, for I felt sure that he was going to use the clay for pellets to sling at me, but there was no stick visible.
One was a plain bottle of pellets which might have been some homeopathic remedy.
She dumped the pellets back into the bottle hastily, and disappeared.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pellets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
