Sentences with phrase «bodily processes like»

Your dog is just like you — his body needs a certain number of calories on a daily basis just to maintain essential bodily processes like respiration and digestion.

This can occur during many healthy bodily processes like enzymatic reactions, but the importance for acne is the massive instability.

By enabling communication between distant parts of the body, they coordinate complex and vital bodily processes like growth, metabolism, fertility, immune responses and even behavior.

Not exact matches

Whether I use the expression «momentary self» or the word «monad,» what I am in fact doing is setting a limit, on no validly argued grounds, to the dissolution of the «total temporary states» into a purely ad hoc combination of inexplicable and inexplicably organized collections of bodily cells, sensations, intentions, thoughts, nervous processes, desires, and the like.

If insufficient energy is available to the body, the body down - regulates all the «extra» stuff, like reproduction, sex drive, puberty, and immunity, while the presence of leptin indicates sufficient energy, enough to spend on other bodily functions and physiological processes.

Hormones are like software programs, directing our bodily processes, modulating our reactions to foods, and guiding energy metabolism and balance.

Bodily fluids are sometimes part of the production process, where lo - fi machinery and Heath Robinson - like contraptions produce uncertain goods.

PLACE IN ART HISTORY: Many artists from the Viennese Actionists to the photographer Andres Serrano have used bodily fluids like urine in their art — it's so obviously provocative that one could call it a conventional choice of an alternate art process.

Augmenting them with make - up, wigs, glass eyes, as well as interactive sensors and audio components to simulate bodily processes and reactions, Hershman Leeson, like Thek, also encased her modular body parts in materials like Plexiglas or recycled them into site - specific installations, plugging the figures into larger cultural narratives about power, technology and gender.

Shin uses Taoist indigenous knowledge to explore the porousness of bodily boundaries and the ceaseless movement of living processes, like fermentation, echoing the history of colonialism.

Her newest works are floating, abstract bands possessed with what she terms a «meat - like texture,» alluding to bodily processes and death.