Abrasion and Overbending Concerns - To prevent abrasion and overbending, a metal hose can be used as a protective cover over wires or even other hoses.
It really looks very similar to a hose clamp, and what a hose clamp is is a band that's got notches so that as you turn a screw on the band, it decreases the circumference of the band itself.
It was only a hose after all, only canvas and brass, you could hack it to pieces and it would never complain, never twist and jerk and bleed green slime all over the blue carpet.
Behind that was a sloping case, filled with cables and hoses. The blue glow was bright there, too, as if some kind of energy was pumping out from this machine into the rest of the plane.
If their least favourite thing in the world was magic—closely followed by neighbours who cheated more than they did on the hosepipe ban—people who heard voices were definitely in the bottom ten.
That's because your trachea is basically built like a vacuum hose — since the lungs create negative pressure with every breath, the trachea needs those rings to keep it open.