Sentences with word «cadaver»

Having tackled ghosts, sex, and the sordid science of cadavers in previous books, Mary Roach went to space in 2010 — in subject matter, at least — in Packing for Mars.

Von Hagens counters that the exhibit is not only educational but beautiful: It reclaims the human cadaver from the lurid probing of forensic dramas like Silence of the Lambs and CSI, returning it to its pre-Victorian status as a source of humility and wonder.

The searchers have been aided by cadaver dogs and by elevated views from the extended arms of fire trucks.

Many years ago when I was a first year student in Wales, as part of my anatomy module we were driven to Bristol University so that we could observe the medical students at work on cadaver dissection.

In 1977, when most of my classmates at the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine were studying cadavers for gross anatomy or microscope slides for histopathology, I might have been found in the veterinary school library reading Dr. Ross Clark's pioneering articles on practice management in Veterinary Economics.

I've examined environmental and social impacts of cellphones, pondered hummingbird flight mechanics, broken solar panels, and assisted with cadaver studies of biomedical devices.

«They weren't buried, but distributed to different medical schools in the city to be used as cadavers in anatomy classes.

The adductor magnus is a very large muscle by volume, with cadaver studies indicating that its volume in elderly people spans is around 222 ml (Friederich and Brand, 1990).

They've just launched a $ 24 million crowdfunding campaign to put 20 of their synthetic dog cadavers into every accredited veterinary college in the world, saving the lives of thousands of animals each year.

If so, sperm banks could use cadavers as donors as long as the departed have signed organ donor cards.

In a room normally used for dissecting cadavers, McConnell convenes a meeting highlighting what he says is the Obama administration's «war on coal.»

Two foreigners received kidneys from cadaver donors while the rest (531) benefited from living non-related donors (LNRDs).

Code blues in hospitals may be a call for doctors to rush to the bedside of beating - heart cadavers who need their hearts defibrillated.

We already know that newly hatched male hide beetles (Dermestes maculatus) are attracted by benzyl butyrate, a chemical that is released in relatively high concentrations by cadavers in the late stage of decay.

The researchers are testing bacterial signatures of human cadavers over time to learn more about the process of human decomposition and how it is influenced by weather, seasons, animal scavenging and insect infestations.

They started pursuing that idea a little closer to home, collecting soil from beneath four human cadavers at the University of Tennessee's outdoor human decomposition laboratory (technically the Anthropology Research Facility, aka the Body Farm).

Jennekens et al. (1971) took samples of cadavers aged 8 to 42 years and reported the proportion of type I muscle fibers in the deltoid was > 50 %.

This is the same type of training that bomb - detection, drug - sniffing, cadaver searching or customs dogs go through.

«If we launched this product organically, it might take us a decade to put canine cadavers into every veterinary college and many more animals would die needlessly as a result... With the help of the crowdfunding campaing, we can do this practically overnight, and start to put an end to terminal labs for good,» Sakezles said in a press release.

The gluteus medius has been weighed in a small number of cadaver dissection studies.

Faye Booth's title aptly captures several aspects of her novel: there's Lydia, the newest hire in a London brothel; Henry, a doctor who must break laws to obtain cadavers for his medical students; and then there's the Victorian pornography angle.

That the film should present Shakespeare's oeuvre as a stack of leather - bound tomes saved for a politically opportune moment, filed away like cadavers in de Vere's «secret writings of Oxford» drawer, is bad enough.

It turns out that male mites approached the non-infective cadavers more often than they did healthy females.

Favre et al. (2005) measured the PCSA in a male cadaver with no known shoulder - related pathology.

The wet lab portion focuses on obtaining diagnostic dental radiographs utilizing canine and feline cadaver specimens.

MSSU — Ummel Technology Center, Joplin, MO Power and Lighting design for state - of - the - art physiology and anatomy labs including fail - safe cadaver lab.

Tests on cadavers showed that the robot could fit implants which were 90 per cent in contact with the bone.

Because female blowflies lay eggs on fresh cadavers almost immediately, forensic scientists can look for deposited eggs and newborn larvae to determine when a person died.

ASMI researchers are involved in different fields such as biomechanics (motion analysis, which includes cadaver research, namely, the use of human limbs to analyze anatomy, motion, and the strength of muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones) and clinical research (tracking patients to see how successful they are returning to sport after treatment with surgery or physical therapy).

Simulated lesions are created on cadaver specimens, and the participants then «treat» the pathology.

Your pet's body is encased in a PVC - free pet cadaver bag.

It has, however, been used for animal cadavers for a while.

Dr. med, Fettweis - German pediatric orthopedic surgeon and babywearing expert - Hip Development Research... (His lecture might get a little graphic as he has done research with cadavers looking at hips)...

Then they temporarily covered Nelson's face with cadaver skin to keep bacteria out and prepare the wound for permanent grafts.

Anyway, I began to realize there's this whole work force of donated cadavers out there, being put through their paces in labs and universities.

Nestler's team looked at cadaver brains from people who had been diagnosed with depression in life.

«This high - risk patient population is the same population that would be eligible for cadaver islet transplants, a procedure that can be highly effective but suffers from a severe lack of donor material,» said Dr. Laikind.

To reduce the amount of equipment in the images, most of the photographs in this article feature cadavers or well - trained healthy dogs that could be taped and positioned without sedation.

Internal muscle moment arm lengths are most commonly calculated by cadaver measurements (Dostal et al. 1986), which tends to underestimate their length in younger, living subjects.

Mazziotta and Toga's study also includes cadaver brains, cut up into more than 2,500 microscopically thin slices and mounted on glass slides, then stained and digitally photographed.

She also feared dissecting cadavers because Navajos believe they harbor evil spirits.

From its macabre fixation on cadaver procurement to its Frankensteinian makeover procedures, the unnamed company assumes an effectively creepy presence throughout this film.

Of the 11 rooms, perhaps most interesting is John Baldessari's «Unrealised Proposal for Cadavre Piece,» first conceived in 1970 and comprised of the paper trail of documents and e-mail correspondences of failed attempts to procure a willing male cadaver who would then have been placed in a climate - controlled vitrine, made to resemble Andrea Mantegra's recumbent dead Christ.

Thorsten Schwark at the University Hospital of Schleswig - Holstein in Kiel, Germany, and his colleagues swabbed the shoulders and buttocks of six cadavers after they had rested on autopsy tables.

Male twospotted spider mites have a thing for female cadavers killed by a pathogenic fungus.