Cuticle used in a sentence

Cuticle in a sentence as a noun

To be honest, I think that all the "external protective cuticle" part is faked.

The "1 week for unrefrigerated eggs" referred to eggs that still had their cuticle.

But the washing process also destroys the egg's outer most protective layer, the cuticle.

The part about washing and the "protective cuticle" was interesting.

The Health Department requires that washed eggs be refrigerated due to the removal of the cuticle or "bloom".

This is because eggs in the US are cleaned so much that the egg's cuticle is washed away, which is the egg's natural barrier to bacteria.

That way I remove any dirt before opening the shell, and at a point where removing the egg's cuticle is not an issue any more.

"Almost every other country" doesn't wash their eggs, which strips the protective cuticle that allows eggs to remain safe at room temperature.

So, between the washing and the dry refrigerator environment, that cuticle is mostly gone by the time it gets to the supermarket.

I'd always heard that you shouldn't store unwashed eggs in the fridge, as the cold can cause them to contract, which makes it more vulnerable to infection if parts of the cuticle are damaged.

Except instead of bleeding to death from the lacerations, the water in their hemolymph diffuses out at a faster rate through the scratches in their cuticle, and they dehydrate to death.

Apparently you should not do thatWithout the cuticle, eggs must be refrigerated to combat bacterial infection from inside.

America here, we used to own chickens -- the rule my wife told me is if it's fresh--it can sit for 1-2 months without putting in fridge, if it's store bought it must be refrigerated because of the cuticle.

How do they repair damage, and in what sense are they a living cell rather than just an inert husk like the dead cells in the cuticle of hair?I believe "inner lens cells" refers to the lens fibers, but this is all Wikipedia had to say:> New lens fibers are generated from the equatorial cells of the lens epithelium, in a region referred to as the germinative zone.