Sentences with phrase «of skin scales»

Why: Dust mites consider the 450g of skin scales we shed annually a delicacy.

Researchers discovered the impression of skin scales left by a dinosaur which had lain down in the mud.

Not exact matches

It radiates alpha particles, relatively large on an atomic scale, which means the thin glass of a test tube, the leather of a briefcase, or even air or skin stop them.

Step 3: Remove the skin of the cantaloupe and use a peeler to scale down to a good, rounded «head size» - Then fasten the head with toothpicks to the bottom of the watermelon.

Once you scrape off the scales (or have someone do it for you), fish skin is smooth and kind of buttery.

They skin and paunch all sorts of quadrupeds; they draw and pluck their fowl; but their fish they dress with their scales on, without gutting; but in eating they leave the scales, entrails and bones to be thrown away.

In each of those years that Arsenal won, there were those draws against some tough premier league teams that were supposed to be potential banana skins for the team, yet they scaled those hurdles.

However, you can tip the scales in your favor by drinking plenty of water, moisturizing your skin, and trying to gain weight slowly.

Eczema: A skin disorder causing inflammation, itching, redness, scaling or a noncontagious breakout of lesions.

If such signs and symptoms of yeast infection as white scales and lesions appear with red rash and swelling, occurrence of small red «satellite» pimples or redness in the folds of baby skin.

The signs of this skin issue are red thickened skin with silvery sore or itchy scales placed on arms, legs or baby's scalp.

The scaling is more pronounced and lasts longer because of hair shafts stopping the scales from rubbing or falling off, as they do on bare skin.

Cradle cap can cause a variety of symptoms, but some of the most common include thick crusts of skin on the scalp, yellow scales, oily patches of skin, and skin flakes (a.k.a. dandruff).

«When I first saw it on my daughter's head, I kind of knew what it was but was worried cause it looked more like scales than dry skin.

Peeling, scaling, crusting or flaking of the pigmented area of skin surrounding the nipple (areola) or breast skin

There are some things you can do at home to loosen the flakes and scales and painlessly clean the baby's scalp to rid the skin of cradle cap, but this is an ongoing process that needs to be done on a regular basis to keep those flakes at bay.

At the microscopic scale, the hairy, moist surface of your armpits is as different from the smooth, dry skin of your forearms as a rainforest is to a desert.

It is characterised by inflammation and scaling of the skin, accompanied by a greater risk of contracting some type of metabolic syndrome, predisposing patients to pathologies, such as obesity, diabetes or cardiovascular diseases.

Next, she worked with a dermatologic surgeon to code the images according to the Fitzpatrick scale of skin tones, a six - point scale, from light to dark, originally developed by dermatologists as a means of assessing risk of sunburn.

The children and adults travel from as far as Australia, Africa and Mongolia to see her, because she is one of the few dermatologists in the world who specializes in the rare and perplexing genetic disease that causes their skin to be disfigured by redness and dark scales across their entire bodies.

For darker - skinned women — those assigned scores of IV, V, or VI on the Fitzpatrick scale — the error rates were 20.8 percent, 34.5 percent, and 34.7.

Now researchers have discovered that sharks» skin can even help them rip prey apart — a surprising use of the scales that hadn't been seen before.

They cause raised, red patches covered by silvery scales when they reach the surface of the skin and die.

Dr. Yosipovitch said he hopes the study findings will prompt dermatologists to incorporate the use of a ranking scale for pain and itch when evaluating patients with suspicious skin lesions.

FEELIN» FINE The coarse skull bones of the newly identified Daspletosaurus horneri (top left) hint that the tyrannosaur had sensory organs in its skin, seen as black dots on the snout scales in this illustration.

The majority of people diagnosed with the condition have plaque psoriasis, characterized by red, raised patches of skin covered with silvery - white scales.

Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized in most patients by red, raised patches of skin, or plaques, covered with silvery - white scales.

These tiny bits are the same size and shape as the pigment - bearing structures (called melanosomes) found in the skin and scales of modern - day lizards and in the feathers of birds.

Tissue engineers have been unable to grow epidermis with the functional barrier needed for drug testing, and have been further limited in producing an in vitro (lab) model for large - scale drug screening by the number of cells that can be grown from a single skin biopsy sample.

But growing demand for it from Asia, where pangolin scales are used in Chinese medicine to help women lactate and to cure skin disorders, now threatens to hasten its demise and rob African countries of a precious resource.

What we see is a film laid down by the bacterial decomposition of different pigments in the scales, skin, feathers, and internal organs of the animal.

«Our results turn fish scales and bullfrog skins, which are often discarded, into a potentially useful alternative source of collagen,» said Assistant Professor Cleo Choong.

Millar's group and her clinical collaborators, including Emily Chu, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of Dermatology and John McGrath, MD, from King's College, London, also discovered that cracking and scaling of palm and foot sole skin in WNT10A patients is due to decreased expression of a structural protein called Keratin 9, which is specifically expressed in these regions of skin and contributes to its mechanical integrity.

How has the ancestral scaly skin given rise to the very different morphologies of scales, feathers and hairs, as well as the astonishing variety of forms that these appendages can take?

This indicates that the three types of skin appendages are homologous: the reptilian scales, the avian feathers and the mammalian hairs, despite their very different final shapes, evolved from the scales of their reptilian common ancestor.»

The advent of large - scale genome sequencing has helped scientists identify DNA bacteriophages in the human gut, skin and blood as well as in the environment, but few researchers have looked for RNA bacteriophages in those samples.

«Africa has the greatest amount of phenotypic variability in skin color, and yet it's been underrepresented in large scale endeavors,» said Alicia Martin, a postdoctoral scientist in the lab of Broad Institute member Mark Daly.

Scales are visible to the naked eye; more remarkable, electron microscopy reveals double - layered skin similar to that of modern animals, and possibly even the outlines of cells.

Histological skin examination: Increased scaling (*) is found in psoriasis (A) compared to healthy skin (B) and a visible extension of the topmost skin layer (epidermis, **).

But «micronized» or «nano - scale» particles of these minerals can get below the skin surface and cause allergic reactions and other problems for some people.

The wing would be covered by a «skin» made of overlapping pieces that might resemble scales or feathers.

The shape of the scales observed on the rock show a pattern characteristic of the skin of some dinosaurs: in a form of a rose with a central bump in the shape of a polygon, surrounded by five or six more bumps.

[Lyndsay R. Shipp et al, Further Investigation Into the Risk of Skin Cancer Associated With the Use of UV Nail Lamps] The small study needs to be replicated on a large scale to be confirmed.

The build - up of extra cells forms patches of red, itchy skin that are covered with silvery scales and can range from a few spots to major flare - ups that cover large swathes of skin.

To gauge the level of pain inflicted by each species, the researchers offered their own forearms, and scored each bite according to a five - point scale, ranging from «could not pinch skin», to «sharper unpleasant pain and capable of breaking skin if persistent».

The performance of hagfish skin is notable because they lack scales that help boost puncture resistance in many fishes.

Sharks belong to a more basal group of vertebrates and their scales have been observed in the fossil record over the course of 450 million years of evolution, so the Sheffield researchers believe this indicates that all vertebrates, whether they live on land or in the sea, share the same developmental programme for skin, teeth and hair that has remained relatively unchanged throughout vertebrate evolution.

Caused by the fungus Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola, snake fungal disease (SFD) can lead to symptoms including skin lesions, scabs and crusty scales, which can contribute to the death of the infected animal in some cases.

The thorny devil's skin is covered in microscopic grooves between their overlapping scales, creating a network of drinking straws.

Wafer - scale two - dimensional semiconductors from printed oxide skin of liquid metals by Benjamin J. Carey, Jian Zhen Ou, Rhiannon M. Clark, Kyle J. Berean, Ali Zavabeti, Anthony S. R. Chesman, Salvy P. Russo, Desmond W. M. Lau, Zai - Quan Xu, Qiaoliang Bao, Omid Kevehei, Brant C. Gibson, Michael D. Dickey, Richard B. Kaner, Torben Daeneke, & Kourosh Kalantar - Zadeh.