Sentences with phrase «of cadavers»

Having tackled ghosts, sex, and the sordid science of cadavers in previous books, Mary Roach went to space in 2010 — in subject matter, at least — in Packing for Mars.

Mona Lisa is the result of the artist - scientist's studies of anatomy: da Vinci «peeled flesh off of the faces of cadavers, delineated the muscles that move the lips, and then painted the world's most memorable smile,» Isaacson writes in the opening of his new book.

An American researcher named Maurice Raben began to extract HGH from the pituitary gland of cadavers.

Inside are hundreds of cadaver brains (donated to science by the deceased), numbered 1 through 653.

Family Health Medical School has modern facilities such as the Tim Johnson Library Complex with a lot of unique tools for learning including; Telemedicine to communicate with USA, Europe and rest of the world, an E-library, spacious hall of Anatomy (among the biggest in the sub region) for the dissection of Cadavers and Computerised Facilities to view different parts of the human body and Cadavers lodge (mortuary).

If researchers could reduce the loss of cells, they could one day treat two or even three times as many patients from the limited number of cadaver donors available, García noted.

Suchitra Sumitran - Holgersson of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and her colleagues obtained the 9 - centimetre - long section of vein from the groin of a cadaver.

Jennekens et al. (1971) took samples of cadavers aged 8 to 42 years and reported the proportion of type I muscle fibers in the deltoid was > 50 %.

Von Hagens has invented a chemical process that effectively transforms the tissues and organs of cadavers into a lifelike, pliable plastic, which he then painstakingly dissects and places on display.

For me, Andres Serrano's use of cadavers [in photographs] is an example of something I think is immoral.

BUILDUP Amyloid - beta (brown) accumulated in the front of the brain in a person who received injections of cadaver - derived growth hormone as a child, suggesting that the injections were contaminated with A-beta, researchers reported this year.

However, in many of the cadavers, moment arm length reached a plateau regardless of ankle joint angle.

But no federal law governs the sale of cadavers or body parts for use in research or education.

Some essays delve into scientific history, such as miniature crime scenes used in forensic science and the history of cadavers in the study of anatomy.

However, in a new study appearing in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers have turned to analyzing the human microbiome, the bacteria and other microbes that live on and in our bodies, for clues about the postmortem interval of a cadaver.

The scientists zeroed in on the cells from the hippocampi of the cadavers, examining the switch for the stress hormone gene they had studied in rats.

The study of microscopic anatomy (or histology) can be aided by practical experience examining histological preparations (or slides) under a microscope; and in addition, medical students generally also learn gross anatomy with practical experience of dissection and inspection of cadavers (dead human bodies).

Donor islet cells, removed from the pancreases of cadavers, are difficult to acquire.

That said, between 1958 and 1985, thousands of growth - hormone - deficient children were treated with injections of HGH taken from the brains of cadavers shipped out of Africa.

Muscle weight and size can be measured in various ways, including actual weight of cadaver muscles, the cross-sectional area as recorded by imaging scans, or the volume as measured by the sum of several cross-sections.

If Irons» roles in Dead Ringers and M. Butterfly provide a roundabout link to Cronenberg, so does a med - school scene where the skin of a cadaver's head is peeled away in a kind of metaphor for society's thin surface.

Here the vampires are icky and awful, with barbed tentacles and all the elusive glamour of a cadaver left to moulder in the rain.

Chris and Paul Weitz (producers of American Pie) direct like a pair of cadavers; the pace is stiff, the editing's choppy, and the actors look posed and uncomfortable.

In this fascinating, ennobling account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries — from the anatomy labs and human - sourced pharmacies of medieval and nineteenth - century Europe to a human decay research facility in Tennessee, to a plastic surgery practice lab, to a Scandinavian funeral directors» conference on human composting.

From locating lost persons to tracking wounded animals, or pinpointing the location of a cadaver, our dogs do it all.

Castellanos is able to swing towards one of the cadavers near him, grab a knife that's stuck through its gullet and cut himself free.

Ultimately, perhaps, body and image become one, as Maurice Blanchot once suggested in his description of the cadaver as the epitome of the image, «similarity par excellence» — a self - resemblance of passing strangeness.

Combining physical presence and spiritual absence, the subject of the cadaver serves to parody the medium of the work itself.

He is the co-author, along with Radley Balko, of The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.

In fact, this is the exact reason most doctors» portraits are taken in front of cadavers.

In case of transplants the expenses of the donor or the processing amount of cadaver organ can be very huge; this is not generally included in the insurance policies.

The artist peeled flesh off the faces of cadavers, drew the muscles that move the lips, and then painted history's most memorable smile.

Between 1958 and 1985, around 30,000 people worldwide received injections of growth hormone derived from the adrenal glands of cadavers to treat growth problems.

Thai medical students say prayers over the coffins of hundreds of cadavers, in a solemn ceremony to bid farewell to the corpses who helped them...

The gluteus medius has been weighed in a small number of cadaver dissection studies.

Sumitran - Holgersson and her colleagues obtained the 9 - centimetre - long section of vein from the groin of a cadaver, and stripped it of all the donor's cells using strong detergents, leaving just the underlying protein scaffold.

He says that the authorities should have halted the use of cadaver - derived human growth hormone when the first case of CJD was linked to the substance and detected in the United States.

BUILDUP Amyloid - beta (brown) accumulated in the front of the brain in a person who received injections of cadaver - derived growth hormone as a child, suggesting that the injections were contaminated with A-beta.

«It smelled just like one of the cadavers we had in the lab who had been treated with chemotherapy before he died,» she says.

«Since the first adult - to - adult transplantation of a right liver lobe reported in 1994, the number of living - donor liver transplants has increased dramatically with good results,» Jhaveri said, «similar to those of cadaver liver transplantation.

Prior to this date, growth hormone used to treat growth hormone deficiency was extracted from the pituitary glands of cadavers.

The face of the cadaver is permanently crippled into a boisterous scowl, creating a humorously terrifying juxtaposition between life and death dismisses the need for a self - portrait to govern public image — as Hirst once remarked, «we are here for a good time not a long time».