However, insufficient attention has been given to conceptualizing the paradigms by which bone lead levels reflect lead exposure and by which the skeleton serves as an endogenous source of lead.
Conway and Weaver descend into a subterranean industrial space populated by dead-pan skeletons serving their time producing, packing, and delivering whiskey in order to pay off their debt to the distillery.
Alexander McQueen's digitally engineered prints of crystals and skeletons served as a kind of body map.
Calcium carbonate skeletons serve multiple roles such as protection and structural strength, and the highly reflective white skeleton can scatter light back into the overlying tissue, increasing the chance of photons interacting with the photosynthetic Symbiodinium [10], [13].
If the transplant is in the soft parts, disconnected with the skeleton and serving no supporting function, the surviving unossified osteogenic elements about the ends may proliferate temporarily,—as in the healing of a fracture of a bone graft as shown by Haas, or in closing the open end of the medullary cavity of the graft as shown by Phemister.
The skeleton also serves as a storage reservoir for magnesium.
Human skeletal system, the internal skeleton that serves as a framework for the body.
When this happens, the primary xylem cells die and lose their conducting function, forming a hard skeleton that serves only to support the plant.
Other less obvious yet nonetheless radical modifications of the larval skull and hyobranchial apparatus (that is, the part of the skeleton that serves as base for the tongue on the floor of the mouth) occur to make room for newly developed sense organs.
The metal skeleton also serves to enhance the mechanical behavior of the actuator.
