Sentences with phrase «stretched over bone»

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The next two months involved a half - dozen surgeries to remove dead skin and debris from the jagged wound where his leg had been severed, four inches below the knee; to take skin from his thigh for skin grafts; to build up the sound flesh around the ends of his bones and then stretch it for a strong, tight seal over the stump.

But, with stretching bones, hormonal changes and an ever increasing bump, sometimes sleep is a long way from coming and we have to toss and roll over the bed trying to find the perfect angle.

Weighing only 93 grams, the robot's agility comes from its complex wings made of lightweight silicone - based membranes stretched over carbon - fiber bones.

Fossil records show that their unique limbs could have supported flight, but unlike bat wings or bird wings, they were made of a living membrane reinforced with muscle and tissue, stretched like a sail over a single long bone.

Consider the fact that her skin can stretch over her growing belly, that her abdominal muscles expand to this new, remarkable length, that her bones and joints adapt to carrying more... Read more

Squatting makes full use of the body's range of movement, stretching, exercising and healing — it is precisely the fact that Western society is socialised into sitting rather than squatting at a young age that leads to joints and the spine atrophying over a lifetime, leading to the stiffness and fusing of bones, arthritis, and a multitude of things from middle age onwards; a general loss of youthfulness — older people who have squatted all their lives appear more youthful, and they suffer fewer of the toilet - related ailments of Western society, but I suspect fewer joint and mobility related ailments too, relating to the spine in particular.

Now it's time to organize your body in relationship to your props and the wall.The folded blanket closest to the wall should be underneath your sacrum and low back, with enough room between the wall and your seat for your sitting bones to slightly drop over the edge of the blanket toward the floor; your hamstrings should feel comfortable, not stretched.

Smaller but equally evocative works include sparkly sculptures of paper stretched like skin over wire bones, and a suite of painterly ceramics.

Shoulder dystocia is far more likely to occur with fetuses over a certain size and weight and often results in brachial plexus palsy injuries when obstetricians or others assisting in a child's birth pull on or stretch a baby's neck or head in an attempt to get the baby's shoulder free of the mother's pelvic bone.