What is "tubules"

Usage examples of "tubules".

For the first time Jing felt in his inmost tubules how far he was from home.

His ruptured tubules had been unable to heal, owing to his corpulence, and he slumped in his sitting-pit like a half-filled water-bladder.

Desperate commanders who imagined their junqs would nourish themselves off such weed as the water sustained watched in horror how first the drink-bladders burst, then the floats, and finally the major tubules, so they died.

The Fleet accorded these a respectfully wide berth also, not because they were a threat themselves, but because they in turn were hunted by the fiercest predator in these waters, the huge and solitary gulletfish whose mindless charge could rupture the tubules of even the largest junq.

Tenthag watched the patterns in the sky change as they drove south, and felt in his inmost tubules, for the first time, that he did truly live on a vast globe adrift in space.

It harvests these huge sections of the ring, limbs, branches, tubules with millions of gallons of tree-ring manufactured water .

It looked like a complicated molecular model, a cluster of glittering Christmas balls connected in a web of rigid tubules, hanging motionless in the interstellar silence.

The blue body-suit was similar to that once worn by Ult spacers, a complex interweaving of metallic and synthetic tubules so that it adjusted to protect its wearer against heat and cold, pressure and vacuum.