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Dictionary » P » Puncture Puncturepuncture 1. The act of piercing or penetrating with a pointed object or instrument. 2. (Science: surgery) A wound so made. Origin: L. Punctura ![]()
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Results from our forumBear vs Gorilla Stand-Off. Who would win?... more dangerous :) seriously though, obviously there are a lot of factors to take into consideration. A polar bear would have a slight advantage to puncture wounds seeing it has a thick coat and heavy layers of fat, on the other hand a silver back gorilla would have to be the most powerful primate ...
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Invasion of a host cell by a DNA virus... By the way of membrane fusion viral receptors attach to the surface receptors of the cell and secondary receptors may be present to initiate the puncture of the cell membrane or fusion with the host cell this is followed by the unfolding of the viral envelope. This simply means the virus's envelope ...
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Re: Cryonic freezing... in order to freeze sperm without rupturing the cell membranes by ice crystals. In cell size-scale, small crystals are okay, huge crystals puncture the membrane. And since this applies pretty much to all animal cells, large animals (here, humans) cannot be frozen that way, since you cannot ...
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Why are cells small?... cell wall is 2 cholesterols thick if I’m not mistaken. just like an egg. an egg is a huge cell if you remove the shell the membrane is very easily puncture able. Reason 3 maybe you’re too big. :lol:
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fractured ribs... doctor said that my lungs wasnt in a condition to take oxygen and so left the ribs only operating on lungs. my body was choked with blood bcz of puncture in lungs due to ribs and now doctor said that it wnt b any problem in future but time takin,but i used to feel very uncomfort when i breathe.
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