Sentence examples for adhesions from inspiring English sources

This allowed her to gauge the amount of time that sloths spent upside down or in postures that would have strained the respiratory tract of other mammals.With these data, the researchers worked backwards to calculate the amount of energy that sloths would have had to expend had it not been for the adhesions in their abdominal cavity.

(Earlier, the researchers had erroneously considered these adhesions to be scars from internal injuries that the sloths sustained after being hit by vehicles).The sloth's innards clasp the outer layer of the abdomen much like the way a membrane underneath the human tongue anchors it to the bottom of the mouth.

The operations necessarily were unambitious and confined to collapse therapy, including thoracoplasty (removal of ribs), apicolysis (collapse of a lung apex and artificially filling the space), and phrenic crush (which paralyzed the diaphragm on the chosen side); to isolation of the area of lung to be removed by first creating pleural adhesions; and to drainage.

In the axilla they are so large that the coils press upon each other, forming adhesions and cross-shunts of such complexity that the glands are more spongy than tubular.

The amnion also provides protection against fluid loss from the embryo itself and against tissue adhesions.

Many of the Numbered Treaties were later amended by instruments known as adhesions.

In turbellarians two major types of mesenchymal glands occur: one produces a slimy material upon which the organisms creep; the other secretes an adhesive substance for capture of prey, for adhesion, and for cementing egg capsules to a suitable surface.

These winds are whipped up, though, not by any want of retrenchment but by an unbending adhesion to the austerity dogma.

For the instantaneous facial hair she attached double-sided transparent toupee tape to the moustache gauze for instant adhesion to my top lip.

Geckos share their unusual dry adhesion mechanism with only a few other species of lizard.

The prospect of entry into the EU has fuelled Turkey's five-year inward investment boom, though political difficulties and the slow pace of adhesion to Europe may explain a recent slowdown.