Sentences with phrase «cadavers over»

In this fascinating, ennobling account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries — from the anatomy labs and human - sourced pharmacies of medieval and nineteenth - century Europe to a human decay research facility in Tennessee, to a plastic surgery practice lab, to a Scandinavian funeral directors» conference on human composting.

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.

For example, the University of Buffalo has doubled its donations to 600 cadavers over the past decade, whereas the University of Minnesota has nearly tripled its donations to 550.

Pfeiffer writes that one Massachusetts lawyer was unaware of this comment about him on the site: «I would recommend a cadaver over this guy!!!»

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Other uses include taking Batarangs off your utility belt and throwing them and running a hand - held scanner over a cadaver to find clues to crime scenes.

Thai medical students say prayers over the coffins of hundreds of cadavers, in a solemn ceremony to bid farewell to the corpses who helped them...

Francis Bernadone wanders into a church in Assisi, stands under the crucifix over the high altar, looks upon that body impaled, cadaver - like, before him — stark, simple, demanding — thinks he hears it speak, and feels his very soul pierced by the force of it all.

Simanowitz said the legislation was sparked by a lawsuit filed earlier this month by the city's only mortuary school, The American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral Service, seeking to have the city resume its 50 - year practice of turning over cadavers for its students to use.

Apparently not: «We have found it all over the world, and most [ant] cadavers have hyperparasites exploiting the zombie - ant fungus at some stage,» Hughes notes.

Their experiments at body farms — outdoor facilities where scientists study the decomposition of donated cadavers — have established a timekeeping accuracy of two to four days over a 25 - day period.

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.

Over four to six days, the fungus multiplies and then kills the host, after which new spores are literally shot from the cadaver into the air, where they become windborne.

Sniffing Skills: Ever see those amazing search and rescue dogs, the drug and bomb detection dogs, and even cadaver dogs whose sense of smell is so uncanny and accurate that it would take dozens of people over the course of weeks to get the same job done?

There is no rational explanation for this phenomenon, nor any one reason that stands out in the parade of wilted flora cadavers I have attended to over the years.