Sentences with phrase «of body surface»

The percentage of body surface area affected is used to calculate the patient's fluid and nutritional needs, which can be enormous for those with severe burns.

In all cases, the 3D simulation of the body surface provided a visual reference of the final facial appearance.

In general, smaller dogs have a higher ratio of body surface area to volume.

Tailoring your treatment Bebo says the approach to treatment differs based on «variables that include the type and severity of the psoriasis, the amount of body surface covered, and the location of the plaques on the body (psoriasis on the face is treated differently than on the arms and legs, for instance).»

Published in Cell, BSI member Professor Adrian Hayday explains the value of his study: «We need to know how such tissue - resident immune cells sense the status of the body surface in which they sit.

A new study, published today in PNAS, shows that in climbing animals from mites and spiders up to tree frogs and geckos, the percentage of body surface covered by adhesive footpads increases as body size increases, setting a limit to the size of animal that can use this strategy because larger animals would require impossibly big feet.

In the second study, in patients with active PsA and 3 % or more of their body surface area affected by plaque psoriasis despite current or previous treatment with standard - of - care therapies, including anti-TNF treatments, guselkumab demonstrated significant improvement in joint symptoms, physical function, psoriasis, enthesitis, dactylitis and quality of life.

Koichi Ueda, MD, PhD, Daisuke Mitsuno, MD, and colleagues of Osaka Medical College, Japan, report the development and initial experience with an augmented reality (AR) system for evaluation of improvements of the body surface, a key consideration in plastic surgery.

Once an animal is big enough to need a substantial fraction of its body surface to be covered in sticky footpads, the necessary morphological changes would make the evolution of this trait impractical, suggests Labonte.

Accordingly, exposure to intense microwaves in excess of 20 milliwatts of power per square centimetre of body surface is harmful.

In a 2009 study5 with regards to antioxidants and psoriasis, 58 people were admitted to the hospital emergency room with psoriatic arthritis (an arthritic type of psoriasis of the skin and joints), or plaque psoriasis (affects the skin over much of the body surface).

It is not the simple repetition of muscle movements that impel the movements, but rather the deep, vital energy of the body surfacing and taking control of the body movements.

Originating from epithelial cells (skin cells that cover the lining of body surfaces), Carcinomas can occur on the skin, bladder wall, and blood vessels that then pass into the surrounding tissues and organs.

«As animals increase in size, the amount of body surface area per volume decreases — an ant has a lot of surface area and very little volume, and a blue whale is mostly volume with not much surface area» explains Labonte.

Scientists estimate that a human would need adhesive pads covering 40 % of their body surface in order to walk up a wall like Spiderman, and believe their insights have implications for the feasibility of large - scale, gecko - like adhesives.

Patients had psoriasis plaques covering three percent or more of their body surface area, despite standard - of - care treatment, which in some patients included anti-TNF agents.

Lungs are one of the body surfaces that is protected by mucus, but the researchers also had a version of the lung cells where the ability to make mucus had been knocked out.

The sad news is that your dog has only about 5 % of his body surface that is capable of releasing heat — his mouth and tongue.