Sentences with phrase «known as corpse»

Thermal or woven blankets also assist in Shavasana, known as corpse pose.

However, when my fellow practitioners were winding down and preparing for savasana, (otherwise known as corpse pose) I was quietly rolling up my yoga mat and slipping out the door.

For the unfamiliar, Savasana (also known as corpse pose) is the final restorative pose in most yoga classes that involves lying flat on your back with your palms facing up.

Add in the fact that they emanate the smell of rotting flesh, and it's no wonder Rafflesia, known as corpse flowers, have captivated naturalists for more than two centuries.

Also known as corpse wax, it effectively preserved the shape of the soft brain tissue (HOMO — Journal of Comparative Human Biology, doi.org/nz6).

Not exact matches

After all God knows if the late will end to the bottom of the ocean as a full complete corpse or will be missing parts that might have head for the American labs?

D. E. Nineham comments, «after Jesus» death no opportunity ever presented itself for the proper anointing of his corpse a circumstance which apparently caused considerable distress to his intimate friends and disciples — and to some of those who knew of this incident it came to appear as «a kind of anticipatory rectification of the omission».

As Emory Professor Gary Laderman has written, by the end of the nineteenth century, «intimacy with the naked truth of death, as it was embodied by the corpse, was no longer a necessary part of social life (The Sacred Remains, 175).&raquAs Emory Professor Gary Laderman has written, by the end of the nineteenth century, «intimacy with the naked truth of death, as it was embodied by the corpse, was no longer a necessary part of social life (The Sacred Remains, 175).&raquas it was embodied by the corpse, was no longer a necessary part of social life (The Sacred Remains, 175).»

By «John Brown's body» we normally mean either his torso, as distinct from his head, arms and legs, or his corpse; and the word «soul» is used only in old - fashioned idioms — «He's a kindred soul,» «When I got there I found I didn't know a soul.»

Often, the only way to obtain bodies was by removing corpses from their graves, an illegal practice known as body - snatching.

The event was what's known as a classical nova explosion, which occurs when a dense stellar corpse called a white dwarf steals enough material from an ordinary companion star for its gas to spontaneously ignite.

New research shows that, no matter where we're buried, the same bacteria, fungi, and other small organisms in the soil ransack our bodies, as if they were just waiting for our corpses to arrive.

The accuracy of lock - step changes in the microbiota after death is shown to be on a par with blowflies, a current and popular forensic tool and which are attracted to vertebrate corpses where they lay eggs that develop as larvae in known time increments.

• This is Monotropa uniflora, commonly known as ghost pipe, corpse plant or Indian pipe, presumably because the seed capsules look like a Native American pipe.

The stellar corpses — highly dense objects known as white dwarfs — were spotted inside a dense cloud of gas and dust known as a planetary nebula.

Staring into the dramatic corpse of a dead star known as Cassiopeia A, astronomers using NASA's NuSTAR X-ray telescope have for the first time mapped out radioactive titanium in a supernova.

The movie is noted however for having the late Matthew McGrory; you might know him as Tiny in House of 1000 Corpses.

But as I crafted my electrified garden rake for tearing apart shambling corpses, I knew Dead Rising 3 wouldn't ever bring a tear to my eye, even in its regrettable moments of seriousness.

Directed by music video specialists Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan (who are collectively known as DANIELS), the film aims to be comic, whimsical and affecting, even as it features one of Britain's best known actors playing a corpse who farts a lot.

No, Keeping Mum is best regarded as a smug, self - satisfied bit of ugliness perpetrated by guys who should know better and, at the end of a long piece about Patrick Swayze, this is as good a place as any to stop: with his corpse wrapped in a tarp in the back of his truck, the victim of the business end of irony.

After all, R is undead, his movements and ability to communicate stunted, but Hoult finds a way to successfully keep R on the same level as Julie — making it all the more believable that a human girl considers this corpse preferable to certain living people she also knows.

You know it's been a great party when you wake up as a corpse the morning after.

Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning

Instead the story takes place on the corpse of a titan known as the Bionis, meaning your adventure starts on the leg and will eventually take you to the chest, arm, back and head of the Bionis.

The show at Guild Hall includes images of a cryopreservation unit (where the dead are preserved by freezing), a glass flask containing live HIV cells, and a decomposing corpse that's part of the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility, known in popular culture as the Body Farm.

The biggest clues came as corpses: particularly, the remains of microscopic algae known as diatoms and chrysophytes, whose glassy scales preserve extremely well in lake sediment.