Sentences with phrase «shape of a bone»

The sizes and shapes of the bone bits suggest that they came from a tibia (a lower leg bone), but from those clues alone it's impossible to identify the species or group of mammal the fossils came from.

Sufficient intake of vitamin K is associated with decreased risk of osteoporosis, since this vitamin is involved with maintenance of bone mineral density and also with shaping of bone structure (through gamma - carboxylation).

These treats are in the exact shape of a bone, except very small — so they fit in your mouth and instead of just chomping down they make you rather twirl it around with your tongue to check it out.

The order and arrangement of the bones in the four limbs of land - dwelling animals are an exaptation for walking on land, since these limbs originally evolved for navigating water; by contrast, changes to the shape of the bones and to the musculature are adaptations, Gould and Vrba wrote.

This allows the organizer to control the number and shape of the bones that ultimately make up a digit.

The shape of bones can give a general idea about the weight a person carried in life.

Amidst a national shortage of radiographers in the UK and an increasing requirement for researchers to work with large databases of radiograph images, the software which is being funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, is being designed to automatically pick out the shapes of bones in the images, rather than relying on individual researchers.

When he compared the shapes of the bones of species separated by only a few generations, he could detect lots of small but significant changes.

In the beginning of the 20th century, another brilliant American inventor, whose dog biscuits were not selling well, decided to make the biscuits in the shape of bones, and that's where we get the familiar treat we give our canine companions today.

They are called chondrodystrophic due to the shape of their bones from breeding:

It comes in two sizes and resembles the shape of a bone.

These healthy mints, which come in the shape of bones or fish, banish even the worst pet breath.