Sentence examples for frail bones from inspiring English sources

The researchers carefully uncovered another exceptionally complete skeleton an older woman, as shown by her frail bones and worn teeth.

The issue has thus raised health policy interest in Sweden, but mostly focussing on one of the causal factors behind elderly injuries; osteoporosis (frail bones due to low bone mass).

But also because, at every step, in every paragraph, the consistent beauty of Higgins's prose – "The body of a shrew, dead at the path-side, a tiny packet of fur and frail bone, the bright black drupelet of an open eye" – is mobilised to the urgent, violent, adrenalised needs of the thriller plot.

I'm a small person with frail bird bones.

With sunken eyes and frail, protruding bones, the famished infant hardly stood a chance.

They say that wisdom accumulates, that perhaps it is not subject to the same ticktock corrosion that renders bones frail and hair thin.

Skeletal staining with alizarin red/alcian blue and μCT imaging of KI embryos revealed striking skeletal anomalies such as hypomineralized skull, short and bent long bones, and frail and wavy ribs.

His poor, brittle, frail, elderly, senile, withered bones just couldn't take the heat.

I see how it scares them to see their skin prune and their bones grow frail as they impotently stare at screens large and small, unable to process the depths of either their sadness or the world's cruelty.

Elderly and/or frail patients benefit from bone cement; this reinforces the osteoporotic proximal femur.

It is more difficult to achieve successful surgical outcome in older people (adults aged over 60 years), because of a higher prevalence of co-morbidities resulting in lower bone density, frail skin and impaired wound healing.