Sentences with phrase «from desiccation»

Protect the wound edges from desiccation, contamination, or bruising with moistened surgical swabs during surgery.

Thrips protect their offspring from desiccation, the first known example of this behavior in insects

And, in a postscript, he wonders why nobody is being held to account for these excesses — from the desiccation of the Aral Sea to Chernobyl — that have left millions of people, as well as the landscape, maimed.

The amniotic sac contains a fluid that fills the amnion to protect the embryo from desiccation and shock.

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Beyond this, we could take the DNA repair abilities from Polypedilum vanderplanki, a fly whose larvae can survive complete desiccation and extremes of heat and cold, and transplant them into human cells.

The ability to pick up used genes and spare parts from other organisms» DNA junkyards may allow tardigrades to survive extreme stress, such as desiccation, radiation and even a trip...

«We think this glassy mixture is trapping [other] desiccation - sensitive proteins and other biological molecules and locking them in place, physically preventing them from unfolding, breaking apart or aggregating together,» says Boothby.

Exploiting habitats that are often or mostly out of water required new symbiotic relationships to contain and move water, including the fusion of some fungi and algae to create lichen in communities with bacteria that survive extreme desiccation on land while breaking down rock into soil, and the association of mycorrhizae fungi and the root tissue of new vascular plants — culminating in trees that pump water high into the air — to exchange mineral nutrients (e.g., phosphorus) and usable «fixed» nitrogen from the atmosphere for photosynthetic products.

The everted tissue protrudes from the inside corner of the eye and becomes red and inflamed because of environmental irritation and desiccation (drying) of the exposed gland.

There's always an element of surprise when the sculpture is released from the mould; and the long period of desiccation required before it is ready to be displayed can lead to further unpredictable changes.

Tree loss from Carmen Revenga et al., Watersheds of the World (Washington, DC: World Resources Institute and Worldwatch Institute, 1998); Wong Hangchang, «Deforestation and Desiccation in China: A Preliminary Study,» study for the Beijing Center for Environment and Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing: 1999).

Lake Urmia is a hypersaline lake, and its desiccation will increase the frequency of salt storms generated from the exposed lakebed.

In fact we can quite easily blame ongoing desiccation for the downfall of Islamic civilization and the rise of Christianity — the population of North Africa dwindled to nearly nothing, cutting off the Maghrib from Baghdad, leaving great cities like Timbuctu as minor outposts, and leaving cities like Sabratha empty.

In 1989 cracking appeared in blocks 9 — 12, caused by desiccation of the subsoil by the action of encroaching roots from the defendant's plane tree.