At 16, I tried to trick myself into believing she was dead, but even visualizing her body and bones dissolving under a mound of brown dirt couldn't silence her voice in my head.
Dinner for one, including fish steamed so tender that the bones dissolved, cost me roughly $10.
Everything was fine until all the yoga made my bones dissolve.
With a history going back to Ottoman times, pacha comes from boiling goat's heads until the bones dissolve into a creamy broth.
Spirits are ordered in bulk, citrus acid powders and vinegars replace fresh fruit, things like bone (chicken bones dissolved in phosphoric acid) and ambergris (ethically sourced whale bile) are made into tinctures and fed into traditional drinks and bottled cocktails.
If, in the end, "the heart stops, the cells die, the neurons go dark, bacteria consumes the pancreas, flies lay their eggs, beetles chew through tendons and ligaments, the skin turns to cottage cheese, the bones dissolve, and the teeth float away with the tide", why bother flossing?
This past spring, I was diagnosed with a benign, massive, bone-dissolving Giant Cell Tumor.
We attempted to assess the undersurface of cells incubated on slices of vitronectin-coated anorganic bone, by dissolving the bone mineral in EDTA after fixation.
Cathepsin K is released by the osteoclast and induces bone resorption by dissolving bone collagen outside the osteoclast.
Osteoclastic cells secrete enzymes and hydrogen ions onto the bone surface, dissolving the mineral and digesting the matrix at virtually the same moment.
Once the bone is dissolved, these biofilm endocasts would closely mimic pliable vascular structures.
