Bone penetrating the skin and being exposed to the outside can be both a natural process in some animals, and due to injury:

The braid pattern ensures that each wire strand spends the same amount of its length on the outside of the braid, so skin effect distributes the current equally between the strands, resulting in a larger cross-sectional conduction area than an equivalent single wire.

Butyl cyanoacrylate has been used medically since the 1970s outside the US, but, due to its potential to irritate the skin, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration did not approve its use as a medical adhesive until 1998 with Dermabond.

Tortoises also shed skin, but a lot of dead skin is allowed to accumulate into thick knobs and plates that provide protection to parts of the body outside the shell.

When the CFTR protein does not work, chloride and thiocyanate are trapped inside the cells in the airway and outside in the skin.

:" I learned to be a movie critic by reading Mad magazine ... Mad's parodies made me aware of the machine inside the skin — of the way a movie might look original on the outside, while inside it was just recycling the same old dumb formulas.

In fish embryos, the spiracle forms as a pouch in the pharynx, which grows outward and breaches the skin to form an opening ; in most tetrapods, this breach is never quite completed, and the final vestige of tissue separating it from the outside world becomes the eardrum.

While the others were sleeping inside their tents, king Diomedes was seen outside his tent clad in his armour sleeping upon an ox skin, already well-prepared for any problem he may encounter at night.

When Loki mistakenly kills Ótr, Hreiðmarr demands to be repaid with the amount of gold it takes to fill Ótr's skin and cover the outside.

Hreidmar and his remaining two sons then seized the gods and held them captive while Loki was made to gather the ransom, which was to stuff the otter ’ s skin with gold and cover its outside with red gold.

Hunting and trapping for sale of skins, guiding hunters, or making traditional caribou skin masks or clothing provides income, though some residents have sought seasonal employment outside the town.

The part of the catheter that remains outside the skin is called the connecting hub ; it can be connected to a syringe or an intravenous infusion line, or capped with a heplock, a needleless connection filled with a small amount of heparin solution to prevent clotting, between treatments.

This helps to slow the growth of bacteria which could reach the bloodstream by traveling under the skin along the outside of the catheter.

This valve usually sits outside the skull, but beneath the skin, somewhere behind the ear.

Liquid water can usually be seen running along the aircraft skin, both on the inside and outside of the cabin.

His wife, like his father's wife, was from the wrong " skin " group and he violated the law of his people by marrying outside the classificatory kinship system ( see Australian Aboriginal kinship ).

A vortex generator creates a tip vortex which draws energetic, rapidly-moving air from outside the slow-moving boundary layer into contact with the aircraft skin.

Also worth noting was the children's programme The Saturday Banana, hosted by Bill Oddie ( then at the height of his fame as one of The Goodies ) which saw the placing of a fibreglass banana outside the studios, supported by its peeled ' skin ', they also produced the children's game show Runaround which was hosted by Mike Reid.

In the devices manufactured by Cochlear Ltd, two electrodes sit outside the cochlea and act as grounds — one is a ball electrode that sits beneath the skin, while the other is a plate on the device.

Mast cells are present in most tissues characteristically surrounding blood vessels and nerves, and are especially prominent near the boundaries between the outside world and the internal milieu, such as the skin, mucosa of the lungs and digestive tract, as well as in the mouth, conjunctiva and nose.

To differentiate it from the cutaneous skin of the outside of the prepuce, it is sometimes referred to as the inner mucosa.

They are large enough to be clearly visible if stuck onto the outside of the host, and they generally are so firmly stuck that eggs cannot be removed from the skin of the host without killing them.

# ectopic, that is, found to have " wandered " from that path, usually outside the inguinal canal and sometimes even under the skin of the thigh, the perineum, the opposite scrotum, or the femoral canal ;

`` The main bunch is outside, but there are some over there inside the wall ''.

Hamm's world is death and Clov may or may not get out of it to join the living child outside.

Hammarskjold's supposed desire to seek outside legal advice in the guise of Ernest Gross is illusion, at best.

Let us quote once more from R. G. Collingwood: `` History is properly concerned with the actions of human beings Regarded from the outside, an action is an event or series of events occurring in the physical world ; ;

There is a police car outside.

If man is actually the product of his environment and if science can discover the laws of human nature and the ways in which environment determines what people do, then someone -- a someone probably standing outside traditional systems of values -- can turn around and develop completely efficient means for controlling people.

Patchen's musicians are outsiders in established jazz circles, and Patchen himself has remained outside the San Francisco poetry group, maintaining a self-imposed isolation, even though his conversion to poetry-and-jazz is not as extreme or as sudden as it may first appear.

But since last fall the United States has been moving toward a pro-neutralist position and now is ready to back the British plan for a cease-fire patrolled by outside observers and followed by a conference of interested powers.

The outside 4-inch space is filled by mortaring blocks on edge.

On the ground floor the radiation would be about half what it is outside.

If your principal place of abode for the tax year is outside the United States ( including Alaska and Hawaii ), Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands and you have no legal residence or principal place of business in any Internal Revenue district in the United States, you should file your return with the Office of International Operations, Internal Revenue Service, Washington 25, D.C..

The first step is a comprehensive self study made by faculty, by outside consultants, or by a combination of the two.

Summertime supper, outside, is a natural.

He is usually conscious of the social pressures at home and outside ; ;

In one cartoon a family is shown outside a theater with the head of the family addressing the doorman: `` Excuse me, but when we came out we found that we had left my daughter's handbag and my wife's behind ''.

It is equipped with an outside water gauge that will indicate the level of the water in the wheel.

He is a target of ridicule to his wife, and often -- since private affairs rarely remain private -- to the outside world as well.

The dome of the church is, outside of St. Peter's, one of the largest in Rome.

The deep water is used by many people, but it is always clean, for the washing is done outside.

`` Mom '' Marr, as the more than 80 men at the center call her, is the link that helps to bridge the gulf between alcoholics and the outside world and between parolees and society.

The problem is not merely that more `` outside teachers '' are needed but that a different brand is called for.