For this reason, therefore, they give him a serpent as an attribute, indicating that those who avail themselves of medical science undergo a process similar to the serpent in that they, as it were, grow young again after illnesses and slough off old age ; also because the serpent is a sign of attention, much of which is required in medical treatments.

The teeth of young animals are almost an inch long, thin and curved ; however, as animals age, the teeth undergo considerable changes and in mature adults become square, bony, flat disks.

It is commonly discovered in teenagers and women in their early twenties, as this is when many young women in the Western world first attempt to use tampons, have penetrative sex, or undergo a Pap smear.

The sexes look the same and young birds undergo a complete moult to adult plumage before the first winter.

The young of ovoviviparous amphibians are sometimes born as larvae, and undergo metamorphosis outside the body of the mother.

It was through the Society of Friends that Albert and Sylvia came to house two of the Hiroshima Maidens: young Japanese women, severely disfigured by the effects of the atomic bomb, who were brought to the United States to undergo plastic surgery in 1955.

In order for men to cope with their sexual desires, young boys undergo cosmetic surgery that physically changes their appearance so that they look like women.

The petition alleged that the daughter was " somewhat retarded ," was associating with " older youth and young men " and that it would be in the daughter's best interest to undergo a tubal ligation " to prevent unfortunate circumstances.

The player assumes the role of Pok, a young Klingon about to undergo the Rite of Ascension.

Each autumn, the Oldenburg Verband holds the " Stallion Days " in Vechta, during which the young stallions undergo their licensing evaluation.

A youth group arrived in Israel in the 1950s to undergo training in Hebrew education and returned to Ethiopia to educate young Jews there.

Supporters of this theory argue that males hibernate earlier than females because they finish their contribution to reproduction first, and they awake earlier to undergo spermatogenosis in preparation for mating, while females and young lag in their annual cycle.

The young hatch closely resembling the adults and undergo no significant metamorphosis, lacking even an identifiable nymphal stage.

The aquatic Surinam toad ( Pipa pipa ) raises its young in pores on its back where they remain until metamorphosis.

This rapid growth is important for their survival ; in the period between metamorphosis and subadulthood, the young toads lose the toxicity that protected them as eggs and tadpoles, but have yet to fully develop the parotoid glands that produce bufotoxin.

The young develop through complete metamorphosis — that is, they have a worm-like larval stage and an inactive pupal stage before they mature ( See holometabolism ).

Their young are perfectly symmetrical, but the head is remodelled during a metamorphosis, which entails the migration of one eye to the other side, close to the other eye.

After 2 to 3 months the young transform ( called metamorphosis ) into the adult form, losing the external gills for gill openings.

David Elkind argues that " the young adolescent, because of physiological metamorphosis he is undergoing, is primarily concerned with himself.

It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.

Thorpe came to Louisiana from the East as a young man prepared to find in the new country the setting of romantic adventure and idealized beauty.

She was pious, too, once kneeling through the night from Holy Thursday to Good Friday, despite the protest of the nuns that this was too much for a young girl.

I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.

At that moment, up walked a tall young man with glasses who announced himself as a world citizen from Basel, Switzerland.

In `` My Song's Young Virgin Date '', for example, Thompson wrote: `` Yea, she that had my song's young virgin date Not now, alas, that noble singular she, I nobler hold, though marred from her once state, Than others in their best integrity.

This was taken after I came to live in Springfield, and it was made under the guidance of the Reverend Raymond Beardslee, a young preacher who came to the Congregational Church there at about the same time that I moved from New York.

While Aristotle censors literature only for the young, Plato would banish all poets from his ideal state.

But, here again, comparative benchmarks are lacking, and we do not know, in any case, what measure of profoundity and intensity to expect from healthy, young, secure and relatively inexperienced persons ; ;

Affirmatively Baker worked on the premise that `` young men spontaneously prefer to be decent, and that opportunities for wholesome recreation are the best possible cure for irregularities in conduct which arise from idleness and the baser temptations ''.

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

And so the young minister resigned, to go and study and pray, having never passed a day, he told his parishioners, when `` I did not gain from you far more than I ever gave to you ''.

`` We have just returned from Roswell, N.M., where we were defeated, 34 to 9 '', the young man noted.

between performances, enthusiastic young men from the audience will take the floor to demonstrate their own amateur graces.

The letters took their source from a stream of my imagination in which I was transformed into a young man not unlike my bunkmate Eliot Sands -- he of the porch steps anecdotes -- who smoked cigarettes, performed the tango, wore fifty dollar suits, and sneaked off into the dark with girls to do unimaginable things with them.

This has saved us from constant requests seven days a week and made us feel less brutal to the young `` less fortunate '' than ours.

Lawrence E. Griffin gives measurements of nineteen young anacondas, presumably members of a brood, from `` South America '' ; ;

William Beebe reports 26 inches and 2.4 ounces ( this snake must have been emaciated ) for the length and the weight of a young anaconda from British Guiana.

In contrast, Ditmars recorded the average length of seventy-two young of a 19-foot female as 38 inches, and four young were born in London at a length of 35 or 36 inches and a weight of from 14 to 16 ounces.

Alphonse R. Hoge's measurements of several very young specimens from Brazil suggest that at birth the female is slightly larger than the male.

It ranged from a freshman woman, just married, through the various academic growth stages, including one senior-graduate student, to a young faculty member recently married to a senior man who also attended.

In there aren't many young people in the neighborhood the modifier young takes dominant stress away from its head people: the fact that the young creatures of interest are people seems rather obvious.