Sentences with phrase «large body area»

Dr. Badawi had recently designed a PET scanner for human breast imaging, demonstrating that the PET technology had matured to create smaller scanners dedicated to specific body area imaging, compared with the classic scanners designed to image larger body areas.

Not exact matches

«Your legs are the largest area of your body,» University of Massachusetts professor Susan Whitbourne says, «so when they move, it's pretty hard for others not to notice.»

In Venezuela, for example, the government has not consistently released homicide data (though it did this year), so to find the rate for Caracas, the Council made an estimate based on entries at the Bello Monte morgue — though, as the Council admits, that morgue receives bodies from an area much larger than Caracas itself.

Spreading the cloth across larger areas of both bodies works to distribute the load more efficiently, bringing comfort that allows longer use.

The 1974 annual convention of the Christian Holiness Association became the largest body to adopt the «Chicago Declaration» as a resolution — despite some concern that such action would admit too much complicity in recent evangelical failures in this area.

I will discuss these in terms of four large areas of personal reflection and social action: (1) the relation of Christianity to other religions; (2) the relation of Roman Catholic Christianity to other Christian bodies; (3) the relation of American identity to anti-American criticism; and (4) the relation of feminism to male - dominated culture and institutions.

Total body power in all athletes can be developed through throws with heavy balls and should be done in a large open area to simulate the actions of the Olympic lifts (hip hinging and triple extension).

American football players are noted for their high sweat rates (> 2 liters / hour) due to large body surface area, protective equipment and intensity of play (11) The estimated fluid consumption for college players has been estimated to exceed 12 liters per day, so that high fluid intake has become indoctrinated within football culture.

It operates with 4 attachments (all included): a small brush for the face, a large brush for the body, pumice for rough areas, and a facial sponge for microdermabrasion and reduction of fine lines and wrinkles.

A high back booster seat spread the huge forces over a larger part of the body, not all is focused on the head, neck and shoulder area.

The spreading of the fabric across a large area of the wearer's and the baby's bodies also effectly spreads out the weight.

The fact that children are smaller in size means that their skin presents a large surface area relative to their body weight for absorption of environmental substances.»

A hat prevents heat loss from his head, the largest body surface area he has.

Massage beginning at the lower right abdominal area and moving up, cross the body horizontally right above the belly button, on the left side slowly move down and toward center following the large intestine.

Car seats are designed to absorb some crash forces and spread remaining crash forces over a larger area of the body.

Soon after, large patches of plaque [raised, scaly patches], guttate [small lesions] and erythrodermic [generalized redness] areas, and pustular blisters [raised bumps on the skin filled with pus] covered more than 85 % of my body.

Brooklyn Councilman and co-chair of the body's gun violence task force Jumaane Williams told Metro he thought the overall program — which designated groups to work within 40 - block areas inside their larger police precinct — does invaluable work on a ground level.

The remaining 40 to 45 per cent of representatives for each body (the «additional members») are elected in large regional areas using a proportional representation system, so as to match every party's share of winning candidates to their votes share.

«What is needed is an overarching, coordinating body, a role traditionally played by local authorities, to ensure fair admissions across a large area.

In short, the potential possibilities of being able to use a mobile, cloud - based system to manage large bodies of people over large geographic areas seem endless for progressive organizers.

This large heating pad is a great option for providing heat to large areas of the body like your back.

If you've decided to stick with science, have a look in your professional body's magazine and the large scientific publications, such as Science, Nature, and New Scientist, which cover many areas and advertise jobs at all levels.

«In addition, we found that sexual selection favored males that were bigger and moved over larger areas, though the effect of body size can not be disentangled from last - male precedence.»

Although only about 3 millimetres thick, it is the largest organ in the human body and covers an area of 2 square metres.

Laparoscopy, developed in the late 1970s, uses a minute camera and microsurgical instruments to access the body through tiny incisions, providing a finer degree of accessibility to the surgeon and eliminating the risk of large, open surgical areas.

Now that ambient - noise body wave tomography has been shown to work, Nakata says he plans to apply his technique to much larger test areas.

Cardenas and colleagues conclude that similar falling and rising water levels in a large water body forced the formation of the paleo - valleys in their study area.

A large body of evidence from many different labs supports the idea that area 25 is «key to successful antidepressant response,» Mayberg says.

Most patients with generalized idiopathic hyperhidrosis (which affects large areas of the body) can be treated with oral medications.

Secondary generalized hyperhidrosis causes large areas of the body to sweat.

Dr David Labonte and his colleagues in the University of Cambridge's Department of Zoology found that tiny mites use approximately 200 times less of their total body area for adhesive pads than geckos, nature's largest adhesion - based climbers.

Watersheds are areas of land with streams and rivers that all drain into a larger body of water, such as a bigger river, a lake or an ocean.

Large, densely populated urban areas are highly susceptible to exhausting heat waves exacerbated by the «heat island» effect in which once permeable, cooling surfaces like open land, bodies of water and vegetation have been replaced with surfaces that capture and retain heat like asphalt and concrete.

With an average surface area of more than 21 square feet and 6 % to 10 % of your body weight, your skin is actually your largest organ!

Be sure to store the mixture out of direct sunlight and to test on small areas of body to be sure you don't have allergies before applying to larger areas of skin.

Since children also have a larger surface - area - to - body - weight ratio, they may absorb chemicals more quickly and be more severely affected by them.

Female bodies are designed to store a large part of the excess fat in this area because this mechanism helped our ancestors survive and nourish their offspring during difficult times when food was scarce.

This is because we typically shower at warm temperatures, which makes absorption easier and because this water is coming in contact with such a large area of the body.

If any changes occur — be it small or large — then like a tent collapsing, the particular area of your body becomes destabilised and injuries occur.

Split routines can be used when one is trying to add large amounts of muscle or increase muscle mass in one particular area of the body.

In short, the leaky gut allows large proteins, like those from gluten and dairy to get through the lining and they travel throughout the body causing problems in other areas.

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After all, covering an average surface area of thirty - two square meters, the size of half a badminton court, the gut represents the second largest interface between the external environment and the internal biochemical milieu of the body (Helander & Fandriks, 2014).

You can place a few cups of oatmeal in a muslin cloth and suspend it in a warm bath, a treatment that is especially helpful if you have many lesions covering larger areas of your body.

Rather than just warming up the air around you, far infrared heat penetrates into your body, greatly alleviating joint pain, and increasing blood circulation.5 By increasing blood circulation, you're circulating the immune system around the body, increasing surveillance of infections.5 It's like having police monitoring a larger area.

Both short and long heads have relatively large physiological cross sectional areas in comparison to other muscles of the upper body but similar fascicle lengths.

Researchers have also proposed that IC bladder pain may actually be due to pain in the large intestines that are in the same area of the body as the bladder.

Lose weight if you are overweight or obese: A larger concentration of body mass in the abdominal area may mean increased pressure on the LES, potentially resulting in acid reflux.

You will need to see a doctor if itching follows these patterns: covers a large area of your body, does not resolve with home remedies after 2 weeks, and is preventing you from sleeping at night or carrying out normal daily tasks.

Your skin is the largest organ in your body and has (approximately) a total area of around 20 square feet.