In spots such as the elbows and knees the second skin is worn off and I realized the aborigines were much darker than they appeared ; ;

Now the detective must save his own skin by informing on the girl he loves, who is also the real murderer.

As symptomatic of the common man's malaise, he is most significant: a liberal and a Catholic, elected by the skin of his teeth.

It is roughly shaped like a large pear, and when properly ripened, its dark green skin covers a meaty, melon-like pulp that has about the consistency of a ripe Bartlett pear, but oily.

It is thick, much like an egg plant's skin, so that poison sprays, if they are used, present no hazard to the consumer.

There is a difference in the experimental arrangement, in that the U.S. microphones are attached directly to the vehicle skin while the Russian instruments are isolated from the skin.

Salamanders lack claws, have a scale-free skin, either smooth or covered with tubercles, and a tail that is usually flattened from side to side and often finned.

As well as breathing with lungs, they respire through the many folds in their skin which is thin with the capillaries close to the surface.

The outside of the skin is shed periodically more or less in one piece in contrast to mammals and birds where it is shed in flakes.

Amphibian skin is permeable to water.

The skin colour of amphibians is produced by three layers of pigment cells called chromatophores.

Adipose tissue is another important means of storing energy and this occurs in the abdomen, under the skin and, in some salamanders, in the tail.

In aquatic amphibians, the liver plays only a small role in processing nitrogen for excretion, and ammonia is diffused mainly through the skin.

The progeny feeds on a skin layer that is specially developed by the adult.

In some salamanders, the skin is poisonous.

Handling the newts does not cause harm but ingestion of even the most minute amounts of the skin is deadly.

The aardvark's coat is thin, and the animal's primary protection is its tough skin.

In addition, the researchers also mention that the shifting robot can even display an individual's hair style and skin color if a photo of their face is projected onto the 3D Mask.

For example, " aloin " is derived from Aloe vera and Aloe ferox and has important medical uses ( e. g. as a laxative and in the treatment of burns ) as well as cosmetic uses ( e. g. in skin and hair products ).

In third grade, Warhol had chorea, the nervous system disease that causes involuntary movements of the extremities, which is believed to be a complication of scarlet fever and causes skin pigmentation blotchiness.

In general, external alpha radiation is not harmful since alpha particles are effectively shielded by a few centimeters of air, a piece of paper, or the thin layer of dead skin cells.

The first deposit on the wall of a cavity, forming the " skin " of the agate, is generally a dark greenish mineral substance, like celadonite, delessite or " green earth ", which are rich in iron probably derived from the decomposition of the augite in the enclosing volcanic rock.

Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.

Her uniform was of rich, raw silk, in a shade which matched her hair, skin, housepaint, and cats, and since she was so thin as to be almost shapeless, she rather resembled a frozen fish stick.

Other pigeons also have bare skin around their eyes, almost reaching their beak, as in Dodos.

In time, through the use of Batman's notes, Ra's al Ghul was able to fashion a synthetic red kryptonite, this version turning Superman's skin transparent and leaving him almost exploding with power as the sunlight that gave him his powers was sent directly into his muscles without being filtered by his skin.

Originally made from wood, shells are now almost always made from a composite material ( usually a double skin of carbon-fibre reinforced plastic with a sandwich of honeycomb material ) for strength and weight advantages.

# Absorption: oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide can diffuse into the epidermis in small amounts ; some animals use their skin as their sole respiration organ ( in humans, the cells comprising the outermost 0. 25 – 0. 40 mm of the skin are " almost exclusively supplied by external oxygen ", although the " contribution to total respiration is negligible ")

Because skin blood vessels constrict in cold water, the walrus can appear almost white when swimming.

The proboscis of a female mosquito – here a Southern House Mosquito ( Culex quinquefasciatus )-pierces the epidermis ( skin ) | epidermis and dermis to allow it to Blood meal | feed on human blood from a capillary: this one is almost fully engorged.

Cells in the epidermis contain a structural matrix of keratin, which makes this outermost layer of the skin almost waterproof, and along with collagen and elastin, gives skin its strength.

For example, all that remains of the teeth is a small band of vestigial teeth on the lower jaw, almost hidden by the skin.

In reply, according to one version, Shapur was said to have forced Valerian to swallow molten gold ( the other version of his death is almost the same but it says that Valerian was killed by being flayed alive ) and then had the unfortunate Valerian skinned and his skin stuffed with straw and preserved as a trophy in the main Persian temple.

Summer squashes, including zucchini ( also known as courgette ), pattypan and yellow crookneck are harvested during the growing season, while the skin is still soft and the fruit rather small ; they are eaten almost immediately and require little to no cooking.

Jessie escapes the handcuffs by slicing her arm open all the way around on a broken glass and giving herself a degloving injury in order to lubricate her skin enough for the cuffs, which were made for men and not women and thus almost loose enough for her to slip out normally, to slide off her right hand.

* Cooper's hernia: a femoral hernia with two sacs, the first being in the femoral canal, and the second passing through a defect in the superficial fascia and appearing almost immediately beneath the skin.

The African elephant ( Loxodonta africana ) is a very large herbivore having thick, almost hairless skin, a long, flexible, prehensile trunk, upper incisors forming long curved tusks of ivory, and large, fan-shaped ears.

" Pamela Green, who went on to be a famous glamour model of the 1950s and ' 60s, remembers him at St. Martin's School of Art, as “ very thin with a skin so white it almost had a greenish tinge ”.

Below, the exposed skin becomes blue and puffy, muscle coordination becomes very poor, walking becomes almost impossible, and the person exhibits incoherent / irrational behavior including terminal burrowing or even a stupor.

Research shows that, if widely practiced, hand washing with soap could reduce diarrhea by almost fifty percent and respiratory infections by nearly twenty-five percent Hand washing with soap also reduces the incidence of skin diseases, eye infections like trachoma and intestinal worms, especially ascariasis and trichuriasis.

This causes the blade attached to the syringe to lie almost in line with the walls of the syringe itself and they are used when the blade needs to get very close to parallel with the skin ( when injecting into a surface vein or artery for example ).

Natural chimeras are almost never detected unless they exhibit abnormalities such as male / female or hermaphrodite characteristics or uneven skin pigmentation.

A pamphlet entitled " The Autobiography of Joseph Carey Merrick ", produced c. 1884 to accompany his exhibition, states that he started to display symptoms at approximately five years of age, with " thick lumpy skin ... like that of an elephant, and almost the same colour ".