Word of the day: thready

The word of the day is thready:

1. consisting of or resembling a threador threads; fibrous; filamentous.
2. stringy or viscid, as a liquid.
3. (of the pulse) thin and feeble.
4. (of sound, the voice, etc.) lacking fullness; weak; feeble. (<a=href"http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/thready"></a>

"The languishing patients were receiving little medical care, and their skin felt hot to the touch.  Some had the rapid, thready pulse of dehydration."

- Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death at a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (2013)