Despite being forbidden in the Vedic philosophy of sattvic Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism., Theyyam deities are propitiated through the rooster sacrifice where the religious cockfight is a religious exercise of offering blood to the Theyyam gods.

" Despite this, Avicenna " correctly wrote on the cardiac cycles and valvular function ", and " had a vision of blood circulation " in his Treatise on Pulse.

Despite this shift in policy, Philip does not seem to have been particularly bellicose ; early on he noted that having inherited such a large empire, war somewhere across his domains was an inevitable condition, and he appeared genuinely upset when he came to power and contemplated how much the people of Castile had paid ' in blood ' to support the wars of his royal predecessors.

Despite his five-year contract with the BBC, Alan claims to his old school teacher " Sweaty " Frank Raphael in " The Talented Mr. Alan " that there was " bad blood " between them and they were " bitter bastards " plus every profession has its " shits ", so they had to let him go.

Despite bad blood, Kurupt would again sign with Suge Knight in exchange for the position of Vice President, which sparked a feud between himself and former friends Daz and Snoop Dogg.

Despite repeated blood transfusions, she died on November 25, 1916, at 10: 55.

Despite widely variable intervals between meals or the occasional consumption of meals with a substantial carbohydrate load, human blood glucose levels tend to remain within the normal range.

Despite popular belief, fullers were not " blood grooves " that facilitated quicker bleeding of the victim and easier removal after insertion.

Despite its low concentration, TBG carries the majority of T4 in the blood.

Despite the fact that, according to a witness quoted in the criminal complaint, Barkus had been drinking scotch and wine at a lakeside restaurant that night, Rehberg later said he ' was surprised to learn the results of Greg's blood alcohol test.

Despite strong evidence that he had committed the crime, including marks on the victim's skull believed to be from a hammer and marks of blood on Mancini's clothing, the jury found Mancini innocent after two and a half hours of deliberations.

Despite being protected by the thick bones of the skull, suspended in cerebrospinal fluid, and isolated from the bloodstream by the blood – brain barrier, the human brain is susceptible to many types of damage and disease.

Despite the tremendous blood loss, Franklin manages to muster enough strength to crawl out of downbelow and into the Zocalo where security officers take him to medlab.

Despite US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's insistence that the United Kingdom should ' pay the blood price ' by sending troops to Vietnam as ' the unwritten terms of the Special Relationship ', Wilson refused to commit regular forces, only special forces instructors.

Despite their technology being great enough to create a blood substitute as food, they still prefer to feed on humans.

Despite lack of clinical verification, colored light therapy, or chromatotherapy, has been said to treat various conditions, such as sleep disorders, diabetes, allergies, high blood pressure, and heart and lung problems.

Despite him largely being an adversary to Parker, at one time Parker actually agreed to help Frank Lemmer win over a girl named Denise ( Andrea Elson ), who suddenly turns out to be a blood relative of Grace Musso's.

Despite the frequent battles, no blood is shown, no firearms are used and many villains are monsters, aliens, and robots.

Despite the severe wounds the Sergeant subsequently made a ' block ', encouraged his men and continued to throw grenades until eventually succumbing to the loss of blood.

Despite bleeding badly from facial injuries from the shattered windscreen, Klenk ordered Kling to maintain speed, and held on until a tyre change almost later to wash himself and the car of blood, bird and glass.

Despite the efforts of the post-1945 Macedonian historiography to represent Delchev as a Macedonian separatist rather than a Bulgarian nationalist, Delchev himself has stated: "... We are Bulgarians and and all suffer from one common disease the Ottoman rule " and " Our task is not to shed the blood of Bulgarians, of those who belong to the same people that we serve ".

Despite the frequent violence, there is no blood or gore in any scene.

Despite White having the stronger punch, it was not until the tenth that he managed to draw blood, and many writers failed to give him even one round.

Despite having complete absence of blood uric acid, xanthinuria patients do not have any neuropathology, nor any other disease states-other than the kidney stones caused by accumulation of insoluble xanthine in lieu of uric acid.

Despite wounding Yukio, Shingen is killed by Wolverine and Yukio.

Despite several differences in definitions, their importance becomes apparent as different methods of analysis when applied to acid – base reactions for gaseous or liquid species, or when acid or base character may be somewhat less apparent.

Despite the fundamental importance and frequent necessity of statistical reasoning, there may nonetheless have been a tendency among biologists to distrust or deprecate results which are not qualitatively apparent.

Despite this, the cumulative effect of additional species in an ecosystem is not linear — additional species may enhance nitrogen retention, for example, but beyond some level of species richness, additional species may have little additive effect.

Despite Davies ' unequivocal statement that the two wars are distinct, Lance Parkin, in his Doctor Who chronology AHistory, suggests in a speculative essay that the two destructions of Gallifrey may be the same event seen from two different perspectives, with the Eighth Doctor present twice ( and both times culpable for the planet's destruction ).

Despite its unpleasantness and expense, a diagnostic fast may be the only effective way to confirm or refute a number of serious forms of hypoglycemia, especially those involving excessive insulin.

Despite his light letter-writing in youth, in later life his correspondence was so voluminous that it has been estimated that he may have written around 30, 000 letters to various correspondents, a figure which places him second only to Voltaire as an epistolarian.

Despite the continuity of forms in Gaelic between the pre-Norse and post-Norse eras, Haswell-Smith ( 2004 ) speculates that the name may have a Norse connection, Hiōe meaning " island of the den of the brown bear ", " island of the den of the fox ", or just " island of the cave ".

Despite this number they may still represent one of the largest individual arms ; with the exception of logistics and supply.

Despite its name, a KUB is not typically used to investigate pathology of the kidneys, ureters, or bladder, since these structures are difficult to assess ( for example, the kidneys may not be visible due to overlying bowel gas.

Despite the advantages of such an adaptation, zoos are cautioned that parthenogenesis may be detrimental to genetic diversity.

Despite the " one party " convention, Prime Ministers may still be called upon to lead either minority or coalition governments.

Despite the name, there is no need for passwords to be actual words ; indeed passwords which are not actual words may be harder to guess, a desirable property.

Despite popular belief, quinine is not an effective abortifacient ( a substance that may induce abortion ) ( in the US, quinine is listed as pregnancy category D ).

Despite this variety of forms, some game forms such as trading card games and wargames that are related to role-playing games may not be included.

Despite a demonstrated appearance of blunted affect, recent findings indicate that many individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia are emotionally responsive, particularly to stressful or negative stimuli, and that such sensitivity may cause vulnerability to symptoms or to the disorder.

Despite the repetition, there may have been multiple landings along the part of the coast known to the Saxons as Cerdic's Shore.

Despite being considered one obstacle, each element may result in penalty points if knocked down.

Despite arguments that realism cannot be achieved in reality shows because the outcomes may or may not have been scripted, Geoff King argues in his book, Spectacle of the Real: From Hollywood to Reality TV and Beyond that even though the contestants are in a fabricated setting and the situation has been set up for a certain outcome, as in real love shows such as The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, these contestants still harbor feelings that make their participation in the show real to them.

Despite their relatively modest height compared with some continental ranges, walking and climbing in the Scottish mountains may be made treacherous by their latitude and exposure to Atlantic and Arctic weather systems.

Despite the increased ability to offer breast-conservation techniques to patients with breast cancer, there exist certain groups who may be better served by traditional mastectomy procedures including:

Despite the difficulties of observing the sun directly, they noted the existence of sunspots, the first confirmed instance of their observation ( though unclear statements in East Asian annals suggest that Chinese astronomers may have discovered them with the naked eye previously, and Fabricius may have noticed them himself without a telescope a few years before ).

Despite its contrary nature, scalability also may be found in lossless codecs, usually in form of coarse-to-fine pixel scans.