When Tasers are fired, two metal barbs connected to the weapon by a thin wire pierce the skin before the charge is delivered.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | North East Wales | Taser fired as three fight in pub

Additional tests may include a nuclear stress test to assess for blockages in the coronary arteries, and if positive, a cardiac catheterization, an invasive test which involves threading a thin wire into the heart to assess for blockages in the coronary arteries as well.

FORBES: Coronary CT Scans May Save You (And Your Hospital)

Then a thin, flexible wire was threaded through the needle, and the needle and catheter were removed.

BBC: 'Revolution' in heart bypass ops

An LV lead (a thin, coated wire) is placed on the lower left chamber of the heart (the left ventricle) to stimulate the two sides of the heart to beat in synchronization with each other, which helps the heart to beat more efficiently.

FORBES: St Jude Withdraws Older LV CRT Leads From Market

Heady stuff indeed, but Ives, a wire-thin man who favors gin martinis as dry as his wit, is enjoying quite a bit of limelight after steadily building an unorthodox career first as a playwright of one-act comedies and lately as a sought-after theatrical medic.

WSJ: Playwright David Ives finds his timing perfectly

In Afghanistan, the foam would be wrapped in a low-tech layer of chicken wire, then covered in a thin layer of concrete.

BBC: Aftermath of 1998 quake in northern Afghanistan

Conte, who is sixty, has a thin mustache and wears small wire-frame glasses that give him the appearance of a barrel-chested laboratory chemist.

NEWYORKER: King of Walks

Staple a wire lath to plywood, as you would for a stucco wall, apply thin-set mortar and stick the artificial stones into the mortar.

FORBES: Castle 4 Sale