Sentences with phrase «through small body size»

The findings, published in the journal PNAS, suggest that if the bodily environment that a mother provides for her baby is unfavourable, for example through small body size or metabolic dysfunction, the placenta will change the flow of nutrients to the fetus relative to her own state.

Not exact matches

But if you live in the tropics and are trying to avoid overheating, it should be better to have a smaller body size, which would give relatively more surface area through which to shed heat.

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.

When you do an exercise your body is not used to it your muscles become fatigued (through volume) and the muscle suffers microtrauma which is small tears to the individual muscle fibres (through load), it is this that stimulates the repair process and causes muscle growth (the size of the muscle fibres increases — hypertrophy).

In the early days, it was the imported Siberian sled - dogs, sometimes referred to as Siberian rats because of their lighter body structure and smaller size than the Malamutes and mixed breeds traditionally used in Alaska, that soon won fame and success - not only as very fast competitors in the grand sled - dog races of the gold - rush era, but also as couriers of mail, and even of vaccines which saved human lives (one very famous instance of which, is remembered through the classic Iditarod race).

With veterinary laparoscopic surgery, the veterinarian cuts a small incision, the size of a keyhole, through the body wall of a dog or cat.

The mesh size of the net was important to the task — the holes were not large enough to fit a pencil through, and I noticed that the feral cat appeared calmer once inside the net, seeming to relax a bit once his body was enclosed by the small, dark mesh.

Even with the enticement of last night's table scraps, neither my 35 pound Australian cattle dog nor my 20 pound Scottie — who due to some weird act of nature has the same sized head and teeth but a smaller body than the cattle dog — could shove her way through past her chest.