However, this also creates tiny cavities in the lungs in which TB bacteria can camp out.
Thyroid nodules may also be cysts, fluid-filled cavities, or swellings caused by thyroid inflammation.
The inner ear is a cluster of connected passages and cavities called a labyrinth.
Some species prefer tight spaces like cavities under roof piles, others need more space, like that found in attics.
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There ought to be a way for a dentist to hedge away the risk that a new toothpaste will eliminate cavities.
Chronically untreated cavities can turn into painful abscesses, leading to costly Emergency Room visits and excruciating pain for a preventable problem.
He uses small acoustic tags (the size of a large multivitamin capsule) that are sewn into the body cavities of salmon.
The sinuses consist of four symmetrical sets of air-filled bony cavities located in the forehead and cheeks and adjacent to the nose.
Left to their own devices, honeybees construct their hives in cavities, usually in trees and preferably with small openings that face south.
There are gummy bears that help keep skin looking vibrant, sugar-free tarts that fight off cavities and chocolate that helps the heart.
The sheets are then soaked in oil, which penetrates the rubber and creates oil-filled cavities around each of the balls, allowing them to rotate freely.
On the opposing side, Reid Winick, a holistic dentist who practices in New York, called it a potentially harmful chemical that can eventually cause cavities.
This would create cavities into which the bitumen, heated to more than a thousand degrees, would flow and from which it could then be collected.
They also discovered a Mercedes Sprinter van with specially concealed cavities.
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It will also introduce new processes for getting paint into cavities where corrosion can begin and new tub ovens that use less natural gas and electricity.
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This spider's web of narrow tunnels, complete with coffin-sized cavities, opens out into dark subterranean churches - a most evocative way to end an underground tour of Rome.
No-one was injured during the incident on Sunday but the fire crews had to pull down ceiling and wall boards because the fire was burning within the cavities.
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The 62-year-old former nurse from Menlo Park, Calif. suffered from chronic sinusitis, a recurring inflammation of the cavities behind the eyes and nose commonly caused by bacterial or viral infections.
"If we can help these cavities to heal more quickly, then patients should be infectious for a shorter period of time, and they may also suffer less lung damage, " Dr Martineau said.
One of the largest flooded cavities in the world (the lake at the bottom is estimated to be 70m deep), this cavernous subterranean space was only discovered by locals in 1924.
Lasers use a light beam to cut away tooth decay before filling cavities, resulting in less vibration and pain than traditional drills, says Barry Jacobson, a pediatric dentist at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.
Replacement hearts that are currently available are too large to fit into folks without "large chest cavities" (including most women), and due to the vast quantity of moving parts, aren't guaranteed to function for an extended period of time.
At a recent golf-industry show, however, the U.S. working group displayed examples of counterfeit clubheads sawed in half, and you can see the type of irregularities that impact performance: irregular interior walls, or supposedly hollow iron-head cavities that instead are solid steel.
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Carbo Ceramics is a leader in making what's called ceramic proppant, which is the synthetic material, sand-based often, with chemicals that are injected into the fractured rock to hold open the cavities so the natural gas goes up into the piping that captures it.
"You inject the grout under pressure and attempt to fill all the cavities you can find, " said Anthony Randazzo, a former University of Florida geology professor who started the consulting firm Geohazards, which handles about 1, 000 cases a year of sinkholes and other settlement issues.
Because it's so hard in water and to maintain voice features, one of the other aspects of this is that when you dive down the pressure increases, the water pressure increases and actually changes these air filled cavities and you have that influence voice characteristics quite a lot.
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