Almost a third of all injuries were to the lower trunk, including the hips.
Callicladium moss on the lower trunk of a white oak looks like an old shaggy rug.
Rapid growth during adolescence may cause striae to form on the thighs, buttocks, lower trunk, or shoulders.
The lower trunk was almost entirely composed of fibrous roots; stems continued higher up scattered among the roots, becoming free but compressed together throughout the upper trunk.
Because the lower trunk becomes very dark with age, the tree is sometimes called black birch, a name more properly applied to sweet birch.
Turpentine and pitch, also known as naval stores, are obtained by the systematic tapping of the lower trunk of certain subtropical pines.
On average, the lower trunk of one good hickory yielded eight sticks, and this tended not only to affect the oak-hickory ratios in climax forests of northeastern America but also to limit the growth of the game.
In hardwood trunks the reaction wood is called tension wood and forms on the upper side of the lower trunk and exerts a contractive force that tends to pull the tree toward the upright position.
In the study, sprains and strains to the upper and lower trunk were the most common injuries, and in two-thirds of cases, they resulted from people dropping weights on themselves.
It has long been established that on the somatosensory cortex the "map" that exists in the brain, relating specific areas of the cortex to specific places on the skin the genitalia are represented both in their expected place (around the lower trunk and upper leg) and then again below the leg, around the feet and toes.
b Multiple intensely pruritic linear urticarial streaks on the upper and lower trunk.
