flexible tube
Pliable hollow cylinder
A flexible tube is a hollow cylinder that can bend without breaking or crimping—used for directing liquids, gases, or other materials where rigid pipes won't work.
Medical tubing, garden hoses, and drinking straws are all flexible tubes.
The term appears in technical contexts where the bendability matters: The flexible tube allows the endoscope to navigate the digestive tract.
- hoseFlexible fluid conduit
- garden hoseyard irrigation tube
- catheterInserted medical drainage tube
- IV lineIntravenous fluid pathway
- drip lineCanopy's outer edge projection
pipe · water pipe · rubber · bendable · coil · snake · conduit · squeeze · drinking straw · straw · vacuum cleaner · pool noodle · garden · vinyl · plastic · silicone · drain · siphon
flexible tubemetal pipe
Hollow cylindrical conductor
steel pipe · iron pipe · steel tube · PVC pipe · copper pipe
flexible, flexibility, inflexible, inflexibility, flexibly, flex, flexion, flexor, tube