But with the exception of professional athletes, few contact sports and physical education activities in our schools have any carryover in the adult life of the average American man or woman.

With a few exceptions, adult amphibians are predators, feeding on virtually anything that moves that they can swallow.

The brain is the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals — only a few invertebrates such as sponges, jellyfish, adult sea squirts and starfish do not have one, even if diffuse neural tissue is present.

Claudius ' will had been changed shortly before his death to either recommend Nero and Britannicus jointly or perhaps just Britannicus, who would have been considered an adult man according to Roman law only a few months later.

According to the Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry, a small amount of ingested lead ( 1 %) will store itself in bones, and the rest will be excreted by an adult through urine and feces within a few weeks of exposure.

Some paedobaptists, then, think the analogy of baptism to circumcision correctly points to children, since the historic Israelite application of circumcision was to infants, not to adult converts, of which there were few.

" It supports research on stem cells retrieved from umbilical cords and adult stem cells, stating that there are " few moral questions " raised by this issue.

He lived alone all his adult life and had few close companions apart from his mother, and no romantic relationships of significance.

After a few days or longer, depending on the temperature and other circumstances, the pupa rises to the water surface, the dorsal surface of its cephalothorax splits, and the adult mosquito emerges.

Moreover, nonpregnant adult human hepatotoxicity has been associated with short-term use ( i. e., a few days to several months ) of herbal preparations containing valerian and Scutellaria ( commonly called skullcap ).

In a few species, the trochophore does not develop directly into the adult, but into an intermediate pelagosphaera stage, that possesses a greatly enlarged metatroch ( ciliated band ).

The majority of crustaceans are also motile, moving about independently, although a few taxonomic units are parasitic and live attached to their hosts ( including sea lice, fish lice, whale lice, tongue worms, and Cymothoa exigua, all of which may be referred to as " crustacean lice "), and adult barnacles live a sessile life – they are attached headfirst to the substrate and cannot move independently.

Because of its speed, a healthy adult cheetah has few enemies.

Females grow rapidly, reaching their adult size within a few days, while males typically do not grow in size at all.

In the adult brain, reelin is expressed by GABA-ergic interneurons of the cortex and glutamatergic cerebellar neurons, and by the few extant Cajal-Retzius cells.

After emerging from the pupa, the adult fly rarely lives more than a few days, and serves mainly to reproduce and to disperse in search of new food sources.

The tomte / nisse was often imagined as a small, elderly man ( size varies from a few inches to about half the height of an adult man ), often with a full beard ; dressed in the everyday clothing of a farmer.

It is common for young female indri's, occasionally adult females, to silently play wrestle anywhere from a few seconds up to 15 minutes.

If there are too few young, the resulting adult beetles will be large but the parents could have produced more of them.

Another incident involved an adult woman reputedly eaten by a " large reticulated python ", but few details are known .< ref name =" Kop27 "> ( 1927 ): Over het verslinden van menschen door Python reticulatus the swallowing of humans by P. reticulatus ".

Additionally, adult discus produce a secretion through their skin, which the larvae live off during their first few days.

This may be relevant to punctuated equilibrium theory, for in development a few changes to the control system could make a significant difference to the adult organism.

She was under contract to Universal Studios ; the films she made as an adult — including a few with Darin — were moderately successful.

In some parts of the world, backyard cricket ( and other similar games ) is one of the very few truly childlike activities that modern adults may participate in without attracting social stigma, and one of the dwindling number of adult activities that are accessible to children.

Despite the low interaction between discrete hubs, the disease can jump to and spread in a susceptible hub via a single or few interactions with an infected hub.

In mid-2003, due to cross-contamination at a Madison, Wisconsin-area pet swap from an unquarantined Gambian pouched rat imported from Ghana, several prairie dogs in captivity acquired monkeypox, and subsequently a few humans were also infected.

The area deemed to be infected was limited to the actual district or village where the disease prevailed, and no locality was deemed to be infected merely because of the importation into it of a few cases of plague while there has been no diffusion of the malady.

It is possible that infected inhabitants may have fled to Italy, thus spreading the Black Death to Europe, though this is likely only one of a few routes that could have brought the Plague from the East.

Colonoscopy has been shown to be a useful diagnostic tool, especially in patients infected by only a few male worms and with no eggs presenting in the stool sample.

Kicked in the shin during a game, Mantle's leg soon became infected with osteomyelitis, a crippling disease that would have been incurable just a few years earlier.

In time, Unhygenix informs everyone that their rice supply has been infected by a fungus and Sal announces an emergency Rice Run-a regular chore wherein a few community members are required to head to the mainland discreetly by boat to buy some rice and additional supplies if need be.

Asymptomatic or subclinical infection carriers are now known to be a common feature of many infectious diseases, especially viruses such as polio, herpes simplex, HIV and hepatitis C. As a specific example, all doctors and virologists agree that poliovirus causes paralysis in just a few infected subjects, and the success of the polio vaccine in preventing disease supports the conviction that the poliovirus is the causative agent.

Kurtz discovers the plan formulated by Henry and Underhill ; he gathers a few of his men, and an officer infected with a byrum, and pursues Henry and the " rogue " officer Underhill.

After growing a few infected tobacco plants in a greenhouse and a few simple laboratory procedures, a scientist can easily produce several grams of virus.

Written in VBScript, it infected millions of Windows computers worldwide within a few hours of its release.

A few days before, some colleges in Peking University had been closed because some students had been infected.

Borrelia is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected ticks belonging to a few species of the genus Ixodes (" hard ticks ").

This is not the case in laboratory or commercial rearing, where after a few generations all individuals can be infected.

A section of the plot plays out on a frozen world occupied by a single mining station crewed by only a few people, among them is one called ' Sil McReady ', who, in a cynical inversion of the original story, actually turns out to be infected with the alien organism.

Crayfish plague, Aphanomyces astaci, is a water mold that infects crayfish, most notably the European Astacus which dies within a few weeks of being infected.

The fungal spores of crayfish plague disappear from an infected water system ( connected lakes and rivers ) in a few weeks after the last infected crayfish is gone.

Consider a large group of items in which a very few are different in a particular way ( for e. g. Defective products or infected test subjects ).

Remove several " white spots " from an infected fish, then mount them on a microscope slide with a few drops of water and cover with glass.

The bump often forms into a white pustule, which can become infected if scratched, but if left alone will usually flatten within a few days.

It infected millions of computers worldwide within a few hours of its release.