Sentence examples for fraction of body from inspiring English sources

The first was that in any given species, the average male's testis size as a fraction of body weight will depend on the behaviour of that species' females in particular, how promiscuous those females are.

A small fraction of body water is freely flowing in blood and lymph, but most of it is trapped in hydrogels such as the extracellular matrix (ECM), the cytoskeleton, and chromatin.

In general, smaller animals tend to have larger brains, measured as a fraction of body size.

Fat The fraction of body mass extracted by alcohol after desiccation.

However, only the excretion of dermatan sulfate correlated with the fraction of body surface area involved in the psoriasis patients.

Generally, though, only the mineral fraction of body fluids is considered (e.g., in SBF solution [ 19]), meaning in particular in the absence of proteins or cells.

Good soft magnetic properties are observed even at a high crystalline volume fraction of body-centered cubic α-Fe nanocrystals, which are stable up to ∼1000 K.

We believe that emerging technologies, such as NanoString, digital PCR and miRNA-specific nanopores (Wang et al, 2011), will increase the accuracy of miRNA detection from cell-free fractions of body fluids and thereby enhance the utility of these molecules as disease-specific markers.

Additional parameters include body weight and the fraction of the body weight that is lipid.

And Posh had a fraction of the body fat of the real performer.

Thus far, more than 4,000 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq or Afghanistan, many more than died in the almost-bloodless Persian Gulf war, but only a fraction of the body counts in Vietnam (58,000) or Korea (36,000).