While CT of the lungs is usually adequate, a positron emission tomography ( PET ) scan of the body may also be performed to search for an occult tumour, particularly of the lung.

While the lungs are of primary importance to breathing control, the skin's unique properties aid rapid gas exchange when amphibians are submerged in oxygen-rich water.

While in France, during a training exercise he was accidentally gassed and subsequently developed tuberculosis, which more easily infects lungs that have been damaged by chemical gases.

While the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the bloodstream and the pulmonary airspace works by diffusion and requires no external work, air must be moved into and out of the lungs to make it available to the gas exchange process.

While the lungs are of primary importance to breathing control, the skin's unique properties aid rapid gas exchange when amphibians are submerged in oxygen-rich water.

While the primary site of viral replication in the body is not known, in HFRS the main effect is in the blood vessels while in HPS most symptoms are associated with the lungs.

While he struggled to deal with the band's success, he was diagnosed with sarcoidosis, a disease that causes lesions to form in the lungs, prompting him to temporarily quit smoking.

While recovering from a broken leg, Voronoff suffered chest difficulties, thought either to be pneumonia or possibly a blood clot from his leg that moved to his lungs.

While DM most frequently affects the skin and muscles, it is a systemic disorder that may also affect the joints, the esophagus, the lungs, and, less commonly, the heart.

While the hamartomatous polyps themselves only have a small malignant potential (< 3 %-OHCM ), patients with the syndrome have an increased risk of developing carcinomas of the pancreas, liver, lungs, breast, ovaries, uterus, testicles and other organs.

While it started out quiet, within minutes, Samurai Mike was screaming at the top of his lungs and the defensive players were throwing chairs and knocking over tables.

While the lungs are typically involved, other organs may equally be affected.

" While at KRON, Huff was also named a " Clean Air Hero " by the American Lung Association for her work in promoting cleaner air and healthier lungs.

While retaining their human lungs, which they use on land, they have gills on their necks in order to filter oxygen from the water.

While humans and other organisms generally place less value on future costs / benefits as compared to those in the present, some have shorter time horizons than others and these people tend to be less cooperative.

While past conservation efforts were aimed at protecting particular species and habitats, the Convention recognizes that ecosystems, species and genes must be used for the benefit of humans.

While the divergence point of the mtDNA was unexpectedly deep in time, the full genomic sequence suggested the Denisovans belonged to the same lineage as Neanderthals, with the two diverging shortly after their line split from that giving rise to modern humans.

While evolutionarily speaking, as opposed to culturally, humans are omnivores, religion and social constructs such as morality, activism, or environmentalism will often affect which foods they will consume.

While humans have developed clothing and other means of keeping warm, the hair found on the head serves as primary sources of heat insulation and cooling ( when sweat evaporates from soaked hair ) as well as protection from ultra-violet radiation exposure.

While some might argue that, by this logic, humans should also express hairy shoulders given that these body parts would putatively be exposed to similar conditions, the protection of the head, the seat of the brain that enabled humanity to become one of the most successful species on the planet ( and which also is very vulnerable at birth ), was arguably a more urgent issue ( axillary hair in the underarms and groin were also retained as signs of sexual maturity ).

While international trade in jaguars or their parts is prohibited, the cat is still frequently killed by humans, particularly in conflicts with ranchers and farmers in South America.

While most mammals have a very similar physiology, LD < sub > 50 </ sub > results may or may not be directly relevant to humans.

While there have been some encouraging results in mice ( via stem cell transplantation ), it is still unknown whether this technique can be effective in replacing myelin loss in humans.

While humans are allowed to swim with manatees in one area of Florida, there have been numerous charges of people harassing and disturbing the manatees.

While earliest known fossils of anatomically modern humans date from around 195, 000 years ago, the matrilinear most recent common ancestor shared by all living humans ( dubbed Mitochondrial Eve ), is dated to about 120-150 thousand years ago.

While most shoes have historically been worn by humans, there are simple shoes that are designed to be worn by other domesticated animals, such as dogs and horses.

While these humans eventually rebelled and buried the Stargate, thousands of others had been taken to the other planet through the Stargate and used to mine the quartzite-like mineral on which all of Ra's technology is based.

While it promotes readability for humans, facilitates error detection, and avoids interoperability problems such as byte-order ( Endianness ), it can slow processing speed and can be cumbersome.

While this species carries the parasite that can cause Chagas disease, it rarely infects humans as defecation is delayed 20 – 30 minutes after feeding, in contrast to the immediate defecation behavior displayed by the Latin American species.

While human beings were intended to bear the image of God, all humans are sinners for whom that image is distorted.

While lions do not typically hunt humans, some have been known to do so.

While the social sciences sometimes approach gender as a social construct, and gender studies particularly do, research in the natural sciences investigates whether biological differences in males and females influence the development of gender in humans ; both inform debate about how far biological differences influence the formation of gender identity.

While it is undisputed that early humans were hunters, the importance of this for in the emergence of the Homo genus from the earlier Australopithecines, including the production of stone tools and eventually the control of fire, are emphasised in the hunting hypothesis, and de-emphasised in scenarios that stress omnivory and social interaction, including mating behaviour, as essential in the emergence of human behavioural modernity.

While the capacity to walk upright is not unique to humans, other primates can only achieve this for short periods and at a great expenditure of energy.

While the invaders are horrifying enough, the focus of the plot is very much the practical business of, on the one hand, the aliens mounting the invasion, and on the other, the efforts of free humans to defeat it.

While the planet's local humans are just as degenerate and subservient as Swift's yahoos, which they strongly resemble, Max and his fellow Earth humans are brave and resourceful, at their best in fighting the centaurs.

While members of the onion family appear to have medicinal properties for humans, they can be deadly for dogs, cats, and guinea pigs ,.

While contemporary Catholic theology classifies them as schismatic, some groups of traditionalists maintain they are not.

While this is rather low for a Disney animated feature, it still classifies it as " fresh ".

While the Ethnologue lists it as unclassified, it appears to be a Bongo – Bagirmi language within the Central Sudanic family ( Lionel Bender, Pascal Boyeldieu ); Roger Blench classifies " Fer " as Bagirmi, but " Kara of Birao " as one of the related Kara languages.

While the erotic focus immediately raises the diagnostic issue of pyromania, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV classifies this disorder as an impulse-control disorder, with nothing to indicate or suggest an overlap between this disorder and the paraphilias.