Tubelike

Doctors can thread Sapien—a steel mesh cylinder that collapses into a tubelike catheter—from a small incision near the groin, through an artery, to the heart. ❋ Christopher Weaver (2012)

Bloomberg News Sapien is a steel mesh cylinder that collapses into a tubelike catheter. ❋ Christopher Weaver (2012)

I also would suggest a hand-warmer belt that has a tubelike fleece pocket that wraps around your waist. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The first trocar, a long, metal, tubelike arm with a camera attached, went in through another tiny incision in the abdomen. ❋ Carol Edgarian (2011)

I took my hands off the rail and just used my legs to propel me two at a time up the tubelike staircase, with its forgotten wallpaper and its unappreciated carpet. ❋ Portia De Rossi (2010)

Overhead, moving in a closely packed formation, were six squat cones, supported on dozens of tiny, tubelike legs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There were also squat cones, supported on dozens of tiny tubelike legs; and there was one impressive thing like a giant praying mantis. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Its thin wispy tentacles waved about in a free-flowing fashion over its tubelike body. ❋ Tony DiTerlizzi (2010)

There was one red tubelike flower that smelled exactly of cinnamon candies, arrestingly. ❋ Papersky (2007)

We stepped forward, and the flashlights gave us a patchwork view of a large room out of which sprouted three tubelike passages. ❋ Brian DeLeeuw (2009)

The tubelike device is designed to seal off the area of the aneurysm and reduce pressure. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The metal tubelike structures link together in threads that eventually meander across the width of the transistor and can cause a short circuit. ❋ Tracy Staedter (2008)

Ms. Pukk and her colleagues spend their days driving up and down the peninsula in pickup trucks, catching the devils in white tubelike traps made of plastic. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Out in the tubelike hall, Hayden saw doors opening in both directions. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They appear as bright red tubelike protrusions from the cervical opening, either alone or in clusters. ❋ The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (2005)

The laparoscope is a lighted tubelike instrument that is inserted through a small incision made below the navel, allowing the physician to see the uterus, tubes, and ovaries. ❋ The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (2005)

They set up a tubelike device on a tripod above home plate that could measure the speed of an object in flight. ❋ Bill James Rob Neyer (2004)