Sentences with phrase «cadaver skin»

The inflammation set the stage for bad scarring, but the cadaver skin also triggered the blood vessel growth needed to support grafts with skin taken from his chest and arms.

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

Not exact matches

For both the mouse and human cadavers, skin and soil microbes provided good accuracy in predicting time of death, with a roughly a two - to - four - day error estimate over a span of 25 days, said Knight.

DEP can be absorbed easily by the skin and disputed throughout the body, and in 1982 it was detected in 42 % of adipose samples taken from children and adults that were either surgical patients or cadavers.

If Irons» roles in Dead Ringers and M. Butterfly provide a roundabout link to Cronenberg, so does a med - school scene where the skin of a cadaver's head is peeled away in a kind of metaphor for society's thin surface.

As a material «insensibl [e] to contradiction», wax's ability to take imprints of the unique landmarks of the skin connects it to strategies of surveillance and data collection that measure visual, behavioural or chemical characteristics, connecting Hershman Leeson's hotel tableau to her later invented character.14 The artist described Roberta Breitmore as «my flippant effigy» and «a dark, shadowy, animus cadaver».15 Similarly, The Dante Hotel was for the artist simultaneously a scene of death and «a means of survival».16 As such Thek's and Hershman Leeson's volatile effigies connect two very different bodies of work and different political movements — the counterculture, gay rights, women's liberation — to make visible the restraints placed on the subject.