What does the word thready mean?

• It can jump up to your finger with each beat of the heart, making it feel taut or wiry, indicating pain, or it can feel as if it’s barely reaching your fingers; this is known as thready, and may show a body weakness.

  The Last Chance Dog

• It can jump up to your finger with each beat of the heart, making it feel taut or wiry, indicating pain, or it can feel as if it’s barely reaching your fingers; this is known as thready, and may show a body weakness.

  The Last Chance Dog

• I gave him some of the contents to amuse him, and then entering the deserted grinding-shop, walked straight to the door at the end opening into the great wheel-pit, and throwing it back stood upon the little platform built out, and looked down at the black water, which received enough from the full dam to keep it in motion and make the surface seem to be covered with a kind of thready film that was always opening and closing, and spreading all over the place to the very walls.

  Patience Wins War in the Works

• His breath was weak and thready, and a lump was beginning to swell oddly on the back of his head.

  Rogue Oracle

• His breath was weak and thready, and a lump was beginning to swell oddly on the back of his head.

  Rogue Oracle

• Baby Mouse dolls with big button eyes, thready whiskers, twisty pink tails, big baby feet.

  BABY MOUSE

• The only time Mary slept in the same bed as me anymore was when we'd made love and afterward held one another tightly, a quiet wish for the injuries to stop tying knots in whatever last thready bond remained between us.

  Old Scars

• His hand trembled as he touched the side of her throat, where a thready pulse fluttered.

  Captured by Moonlight

• But there are a few signs of a new economic heartbeat, albeit thready and fragile.

  Life Amid The Ruins: Gazans Still Feel Under Siege

• But there are a few signs of a new economic heartbeat, albeit thready and fragile.

  Life Amid The Ruins: Gazans Still Feel Under Siege

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His features were peaky and sallow, and his little pointed beard was thready and ill-nourished.

"Absolute exhaustion--possibly mere hunger and fatigue," said I, with my finger on the thready pulse, where the stream of life trickled thin and small.

We decided to watch a video on my laptop to kill some time after the whole town shut down (there's very thready internet service to be had, so Netflix and hours of posting to Instagram are kind of off the list of available pastimes).

31 (Saba) - Minister of Oil and Minerals Ahmed Dars along with Charge d'affaires of the Governor of Hodeidah Mohamed Qahim inaugurated Thready unloading of the gas tanker called "GAS ODYSSEY" which reached Thursday to the floating dock at the port of Hodeidah after six months of interruption caused by the aggression coalition's all-out siege imposed on Yemen.

The Physiological index (PI) of the patients was defined as follows: Those in stable condition=5, conscious with systolic blood pressure less than 80 mmHg=10, semiconscious patients with thready pulse, gasping respiration and no measurable blood pressure=15 and unconscious patients with no vital signs, respiratory effort, physical activity but with some sign of life in transit to hospital to having the highest PI score of 20.4

And the grey haired man with trousers going thready draws too close, bad teeth and worse breath, asking, where is security, where is security Americans promised?

Reflecting Day-Lewis's cadaverous appearance, there is certainly no fat on this lean and sinuous affair which is far Thready or not: Krieps is mesmerising removed from cuddly Sunday night TV drama.

days Headache Yes Yes Yes Myalgia Yes Yes Yes Nausea Yes Yes Yes Prostration Yes Yes Yes Retroorbital pain Yes Yes Yes 2 patients Adenomegaly Yes Yes No Chills Yes No Yes Dizziness Yes Yes No Low back pain No Yes Yes Taste alteration Yes Yes No Vomiting Yes No Yes 1 patient Anorexia No No Yes Cold extremities Yes No No Cough Yes No No Dyspnea No Yes No Eye congestion No Yes No Eye redness perception No Yes No ([dagger]) Hemoconcentration No No Yes Hoarseness No Yes No Leukopenia No Yes No Oropharyngeal pain Yes No No Otalgia No Yes No Pruritus No Yes No Thready pulse Yes No No * No patients had exanthema.