Sentences with phrase «organs the size of»

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Newborns and other young children usually can benefit from organ transplants only if the organs are taken from children of similar size.

An organ about the size of an almond, located just above the brainstem, the hypothalamus controls a variety of processes, including hunger, thirst, thermoregulation, attachment, sleep, and fatigue.

Uterus: Female reproductive organ that weighs about two - three ounces and is about the size of a small woman's fist prior to pregnancy.

The baby is about the size of a lime, and you won't yet be feeling the effects of baby weight on your internal organs.

The results were pretty interesting: 1) «entanglement; a spiraling inwards; intricacy»; 2) «when something turns in upon itself»; 3) «Involution of an organ is the shrinking or return to a former size.»

It is also unkind, at the very least, to diminish the size and sensitivity of any male's organ of procreation and pleasure.

By 20 weeks all of the baby's major organs have formed, and the baby grows mostly in size rather than in complexity.

The event will also feature daily demonstrations of at least 25 carousel organs, ranging in size from a small music box to a one - ton organ.

Along with colleague Lindsay Zanno, also of NC State and the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, and Montana State University's Chris Organ, Gates examined the fossils of 111 ornamented and unornamented theropods and compared their size increases over time.

The organs made insulin, grew to the right size and were infiltrated by monkey blood vessels (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.0812253106).

Scientists have long experimented with organs - on - chips: tiny representations of human organs, such as lungs, hearts and intestines, made from cells embedded on plastic about the size of a computer memory stick.

«If this technology can be scaled to human - size grafts, patients suffering from renal failure, who are currently waiting for donor kidneys, could theoretically receive an organ grown on demand,» says Harald Ott, head of the team that developed the rat kidneys at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Despite never having diagnosed a storybook character, and his inability to interview the patient or get any sort of a medical history, with such an extremely small - sized organ that got suddenly large, Kass immediately suspected heart failure.

Children in need of an organ transplant often wait longer than adults for available organs, as in many cases, they require organ donations from another child of a similar age or size.

Parents also recognized major benefits of having their child registered as an organ donor, including having their preferences known in advance (51 percent), having an opportunity for their child to help other children (70 percent), and increasing the number of child - sized organs for transplant (67 percent).

Animals have incredible variation in their body shapes and ways of life, including the plant - like, immobile marine sponges that lack heads, eyes, limbs and complex organs, parasitic worms that live inside other organisms (e.g. nematodes, platyhelminths), and phyla with eyes, skeletons, limbs and complex organs that dominate the land in terms of species numbers (arthropods) and body size (chordates).

The most advanced qubits are circuits made of superconducting metal, and to control or read out a qubit, researchers make it interact with a microwave resonator — typically a strip of metal on the qubit chip or a finger - size cavity surrounding it — which rings with microwave photons like an organ pipe rings with sound.

«If I can insert healthy tissue, equal to 10 or 20 percent of the size of the organ, I can keep that patient functioning and alive at a high quality of life.»

In addition, D4 causes tumors, reproductive problems, altered organ size and acts like a weak estrogen in studies of lab animals.

They differ most obviously from their spider and scorpion relatives in three ways: their massive two - segmented jaws, which can be up to one - third of their body length and are armed with teeth and spine - like and horn - like processes of various sizes; the flagellum, found on the jaws of adult males in most species and thought to play a major role in reproduction; and the malleoli, racquet - shaped sensory organs on the underside of the first segment of the last pair of legs.

For each of these cancer sites, the researchers calculated important regional and county differences in advanced stage of diagnosis, which takes into account the growth and size of the tumor and whether it has spread to the lymph nodes or other organs.

Fourteen of the 58 donor service areas offered 129 or fewer kidneys in 2009, so if some organs are shared more broadly, then the expected increase in transplants could represent the addition of a small - to medium - sized donor service area.

To control or read out a superconducting qubit, researchers make it interact with a microwave resonator — typically a strip of metal on the qubit chip or a finger - size cavity surrounding it — which rings with microwave photons the way an organ pipe rings with sound.

Located in the neck, the newfound organ is a fraction of the size of the long - familiar thymus found in the mouse's chest.

New research on howler species has revealed an evolutionary «trade - off» between investments in the size of the male hyoid — the bulbous, hollow throat bone that allows the howlers» guttural roar to resonate — and in the size of reproductive organs, namely the testes.

«Over the past 300 years,» Fogel says, «humans have increased their average body size by over 50 percent, average longevity by more than 100 percent, and greatly improved the robustness and capacity of vital organ systems.»

The ultimate aim is to build a full - size organ, but the micro-hearts could be used to test the effects of chemicals and drugs on the heart.

The scientists compared the sizes of organs in humans and other primates.

Six weeks prior to Kaitlyne's surgery, Atala and his team harvested a dime - size piece of tissue from her bladder, using this as the source of cells to create a new organ.

The chips are about the size of a penny and are intended to mimic an organ system — in this case, lung vasculature.

In existing vertebrates, genome size correlates very closely with bone cell size, so Organ used the size of dinosaur bone cells to predict how much genetic material the extinct animals possessed.

About the size of a basketball in a blue whale, the organ senses pressure, movement, and vibration, and sends this information to the brain to coordinate so - called lunge feeding.

«By controlling the geometry and growth rates of groups of cells, you could then scale this up to control the size and shape of an organ such as a leaf, which is crucial for plant productivity.»

Four of its yellow anthers — pollen organs within the flower — are the same size, but the fifth is bigger.

Depending on the organ in which they are formed or the specific function that they perform, the tubes vary greatly in size and shape, and defects in their tubular architecture have been linked to a number of diseases, such as atherosclerosis and polycystic kidney disease.

University of California, Berkeley engineers have built the first dust - sized, wireless sensors that can be implanted in the body, bringing closer the day when a Fitbit - like device could monitor internal nerves, muscles or organs in real time.

Indeed, when you hear what it can do, the gut sounds more like a superhero than an internal organ: with a surface area the size of a basketball court, it secretes acid strong enough to burn your skin!

This demonstrates how a fairly subtle modification of a regulatory network, effected by a selector gene, can set off a chain of events that has powerful ramifications for morphogen signaling and organ size.

Rather, I hypothesized that, because of their fundamental and non-autonomous role in the control of tissue growth and patterning, alterations in morphogen signaling might underlie changes in organ size.

Males from extinct lines had high variability in reproductive organ size, low sperm counts, low sperm motility, and a high rate of vacuolization of seminiferous tubules.

Based on the results of these tests, the cancer is then staged according to its size, number of lymph nodes affected and whether it has spread to nearby or distant organs.

A TINY VERSION OF AN ORGAN has many advantages over a full - size model.

This organ, which in people is about the size of a pea, sits at the base of the brain, where it secretes hormones that regulate various processes throughout the body.

Our cancer experts determine an individualized treatment plan based on the stage of the cancer, the size and location of the tumor, if the tumor has spread to other organs or lymph nodes, and other factors such as overall health.

«If we go life - size, we have the same problems of complexity and lack of visualization that you get with a real animal or organ,» says Ingber.

The goal of minimally invasive surgery is to perform operations through very small incisions a mere fraction of the size of the incisions used in traditional surgery with equal or superior clinical outcomes and less impact on a child's body and organs.

Each Organ - Chip, which is composed of a clear flexible polymer, is about the size of a AA battery and contains tiny hollow channels lined with living cells.

The chips are about the size of a penny and are intended to mimic an organ system - in this case, lung vasculature.

Despite the complexity of organ development, clonal dynamics may converge to a critical state characterized by universal scaling behaviour of clone sizes.

Once secreted into the bloodstream, ILPs act on the organs of the body to regulate their growth, thereby regulating body size in accordance with nutrition [3,11].