Will the country slosh over its borders in flows of international aid or prowling gunboats, or will it shrivel and desiccate into itself?
They possess a fascinating ability to desiccate into a reversible state of metabolic suspension called cryptobiosis allowing them to survive for many decades in harsh environments, such as lack of oxygen, extremes in temperature, and high pressure, before rehydration to an active state within minutes [ 16].
Nematodes (about 3,000 5,000) were desiccated in glass desiccation chambers.
I bought him desiccated, rolled into a ball, and had to soak him in the bath for a week before he'd uncurl.
Put the remaining desiccated coconut into a tub or plate, then roll the bars around in it one at a time until they have all been evenly coated with coconut.
While a jigging Princess Elizabeth and the mournful Brontë sisters may appear to fulfil our desire to reanimate the past, to puff breath into desiccated body parts and get the blood pulsing round the archive, they always stop short of full resurrection.
Not more than a hundred yards from where he stood, the desiccated trees faded into a tropical hardwood hammock, one of a vanishing few coastal hammocks that exist only around Florida Bay in Everglades National Park and parts of the Caribbean, including the Yucatan.
Macabre paintings of dead animals hang over a desiccated body tucked into a bed.
The few streams emptying into the desiccated central plateau dissipate in saline marshes.
For the most part, Doughty performed what is known as direct cremation, in which the body is removed from a hospital or a home, then incinerated without ceremony, the desiccated remains mechanically processed into unidentifiable fragments that are collected and given to a relative.
