Sentences with phrase «in thorax»

The Vex, mechanical teleporters from Venus, are erratic and shielded, but have a huge weak point in their thorax.

But in the thorax and abdomen of mid-to-large animals, these are seriously limiting factors of usefulness.

Instead, it relies on a type of peristalsis that is stimulated by a combination of skeletal movement and pressure changes in the thorax during breathing.

However, I also read JP Barral's book where he notes in the autopsy's he's done, those who had pneumothoraxes / atelectisis (collapsed lungs) all had hiatal hernias from the movement of the organs due to pressure changes in the thorax.

The latissimus dorsi is a major upper back muscle that connects the vertebrae in the thorax and lumbar regions and the iliac crest of the hip bone to the humerus bone of the upper arm.

Vitamin - C - Rich Fruits Adults with low levels of vitamin C may be more asthma - prone, according to a 2006 study published in Thorax.

New research published in Thorax examines the association between higher cured meat intake and worsening asthma symptoms over time, using BMI as a mediator.

Using lasers and computers, the tool can precisely target and activate certain neurons in the thorax and brain of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster raising its temperature and stirring up its courtship behaviors.

In the case of that particular fly mutant, if the homeotic gene called Antennapedia is turned on in the head segment, «the cells that bud off from the fly's head think, «oh, we're sitting in the thorax, we're supposed to grow into a leg,»» Patel explained.

Quantitative RT - PCR using RNAs extracted from brain, thorax and abdomen of workers revealed that statistically significant and prominent Acks induction was observed only in the brain when the bees were exposed to high temperature, and scarce Acks expression was detected in the thorax and abdomen under both room and high temperatures (Figure 5O), further supporting that Acks induction under a high temperature reflects neural activity and does not result from some «heat shock responses» that could occur independently of neural activity.

The thymus is situated high in the thorax and is a gland with important functions in the development of the immune system.

A fungus that incubated in the instrument and traveled to the man's lungs, causing a dangerous infection, researchers report this week in Thorax.

One of these Hox genes, known as Ubx, suppresses 100 percent of limb development in the thorax region of fruit flies, but only 15 percent in the brine shrimp Artemia (right).

Whenever they spot Escovopsis, they secrete phenylacetic acid from a special gland in their thoraxes, a strategy that kills the fungus and sets the ants apart from close relatives that cultivate bacteria and other microbes to fight off the fungi.

Not exact matches

An inductive, empirical approach in a field such as anatomy would certainly demand more than that each new student start from scratch, with only such general observations as that people come with parts such as heads, thoraxes, loins, thighs, hearts, kidneys, spleens and an assortment of tubes.

Here he is in the second quarter of today's game firing a sidearm pass directly into Justin Tuck's thorax.

And in arsenal, Wenger should not use thorax 2 manage the club.

She might have gotten by with the head and perhaps shoulders but got hung up at the thorax and abdomen to result in rupture of the liver.

To this day one of my favorite passages ever written is from Henry David Thoreau's Walden where he describes an epic battle between ants in Concord, an injured soldier limping forward as the still living heads of his enemies cling to his legs and thorax «like ghastly trophies at his saddle - bow.»

In addition to identifying several characterized developmental genes, the approach revealed previously unsuspected genetic subdivisions of the thorax, which may control the disposition of pattern elements.

The colors reveal the wasp's anatomy: Its head and thorax glimmer in blue while its abdomen glistens in ruby red.

The Japanese Beetle (Popillia japonica) is a beetle about 1.5 cm (0.6 inches) long and 1 cm (0.4 inches) wide (smaller in Canada), with shiny copper - colored elytra and a shiny green top of the thorax and head.

Rather the fly tenses and relaxes the muscles in rhythmic cycles that cause the thorax itself to change shape.

To measure the fly movements with precision, neuroscientist Kees Schilstra and his colleagues at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands constructed miniature sensors, which they mounted on the head and thorax of four flies before setting the insects loose in a cage.

The solution, scientists report in tomorrow's issue of Nature, involves independent movement of the head and thorax in a way similar to how skaters avoid dizziness by snapping their head before their body completes its rotation.

Results of the study are published in the online issue of Thorax, one of the world's leading respiratory medicine journals.

To find out if the cockroaches had personalities, Planas - Sitjà and his colleagues glued tiny radio frequency identification chips to the thoraxes of 304 roaches so that they could track each insect after it was placed in a new environment.

Reported today in Disease Models & Mechanisms, Karim Si - Tayeb and colleagues in the research group of Bertrand Cariou from l'Institut du Thorax, Nantes used an innovative approach to develop unique patient cell - based models of PCSK9 - driven hypercholesterolemia.

In butterflies, the thorax is mostly composed of flight muscle while the abdomen is largely dedicated to egg production.

Butterflies originating from the northern edge of both ranges had more muscular thoraxes and laid fewer eggs, the researchers report online this week in Biology Letters.

In one instance, when the researchers attempted to pull a male and female apart, the male's abdomen was ripped from the thorax without breaking the genital coupling.

The hard, yellow green underside of its thorax ismarked with deep indentations that resemble smiley faces doubled anddistorted in mirrors.

Instead of the two or three body joints found in other ants, these ants have just a single connection between the thorax and the abdomen.

In this study, Nicodemo et al. looked at the effects of fipronil and imidacloprid on the bioenergetics functioning of mitochondria isolated from the heads and thoraces of Africanized honeybees.

The safe sites comprised 24.5 % of the dorsal projection of the body in B. terrestris (caput: 13.4 %, thorax: 20.8 %, abdomen: 30.2 %) and 23.5 % in A. mellifera (caput: 9.7 %, thorax: 41.0 %, abdomen: 21.1 %)(S1 Table).

Field observations of flower - visiting bees (Apis mellifera, different species of Bombus and other genera) at mainly species of Orobanchaceae and Fabaceae have demonstrated that after pollen accumulation on the bees» bodies by the pollen - sacs) and subsequent grooming, residual patches of pollen patches remain in specific areas of the bees» body, mainly on the dorsal and ventral midline of the head, thorax and abdomen [31 — 42].

In S. pratensis, 20 % of the safe site area on the bumblebees» thorax was contaminated by the pollen - sacs and 9 % by the stigmas.

With their middle legs, the bees cleaned the dorsal and lateral thorax, except the dorsal area between the tegulae (insertions of wings) in Bombus terrestris and a large area right behind the head in Apis mellifera.

In both species, the head safe site was the smallest one (all p < 0.0001 according to Tukey post-hoc tests, except not significantly smaller than the thorax in B. terrestris: p = 0.057, Fig 2AIn both species, the head safe site was the smallest one (all p < 0.0001 according to Tukey post-hoc tests, except not significantly smaller than the thorax in B. terrestris: p = 0.057, Fig 2Ain B. terrestris: p = 0.057, Fig 2A).

Fetal thoraces and adult hearts and aortas were embedded in paraffin, exhaustively sectioned (10 µm, Leica RM 2235 microtome, Germany) and processed for haematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining.

«In these animals, there's a marked difference between the appendages of the head and the thorax — the head has tiny appendages used for pushing food into the mouth, and the thoracic appendages are long and feathery for swimming.»

In crustaceans, if Ubx - abdA is turned on in a segment, it tells the limb buds they lie in the part of the thorax that should grow locomotory legIn crustaceans, if Ubx - abdA is turned on in a segment, it tells the limb buds they lie in the part of the thorax that should grow locomotory legin a segment, it tells the limb buds they lie in the part of the thorax that should grow locomotory legin the part of the thorax that should grow locomotory legs.

The good news is there are certain activities that are able to increase the volume of the thorax, which in turn, automatically leads to an increase in muscle growth potential.

It protracts the scapula (pulls it forward) and holds it against the wall of the thorax, which is very important in throwing and pushing movements.

Perform a hip hinge (moving the hips through a complete flexion to extension with minimal knee bend) with your arms overhead to give your thoracolumbar fascia (a membrane seated in your posterior thorax and abdomen) a good stretch.

But research published in the medical journal Thorax suggests that yogic breathing isnt one of them: Participants who used a device that mimicked the breathing technique pranayama saw no improvement in their asthma symptoms.

Hyper extension in the thoracic spine exerts pressure on posterior mediastinum - a part of the thorax which when pressured creates an increase in the sympathetic tone of the autonomic nervous system (responsible for the fight or flight mechanism)- this is not a good thing.

Because of the tension, trauma and poor posture inherent in today's workplace, it is no surprise that head - on - neck and neck - on - thorax imbalances serve as some of the most common pain generators driving people into bodywork and movement practices.

It tones the spine, the neck, the intestines, other organs in the abdomen and thorax and the shoulders.

The vagus nerve «wanders» from the brain stem through the organs in the neck and thorax and finally terminates in the abdomen.