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cuticle
The shrimp become weak and disoriented, and may have dark wounds on the cuticle.
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Changes in properties of wheat leaf cuticle during interactions with Hessian fly.
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Separating the membrane from the cuticle is currently not an efficient process.
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Guard against this by using a good hand cream and applying cuticle oil regularly.
From the nzherald.co.nz
The oral cavity opens into a muscular sucking pharynx, also lined with cuticle.
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Protein treatments fill in these gaps in the cuticle to make hair appear smoother.
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Comiskey says that there's a difference between live cuticle and dead cuticle.
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If the pain is severe, or I see a piece of cuticle hanging, I stop until it heals.
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Not to mention that nasty cuticle I had to overcome to hit the keyboard in August.
From the orlandosentinel.com
- The dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail
- Epidermis: the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates
- Carapace: hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- (cuticular) of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula
- A cuticle , or cuticula, is any of a variety of tough but flexible, non-mineral outer coverings of an organism, or parts of an organism, that provide protection. Cuticles are non-homologous, differing in their origin, structure and chemical composition.
- The hair cuticle is the outermost part of the hair shaft.James, William; Berger, Timothy; Elston, Dirk (2005) Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: Clinical Dermatology (10th ed.). Saunders. Page 8. ISBN 0721629210. It is a hard shingle-like layer of overlapping cells, some five to twelve deep. ...
- Plant cuticles are a protective waxy covering produced only by the epidermal cells Kolattukudy, PE (1996) Biosynthetic pathways of cutin and waxes, and their sensitivity to environmental stresses. In: Plant Cuticles. Ed. by G. Kerstiens, BIOS Scientific publishers Ltd. ...
- In human anatomy, the eponychium [Greek epi (on, upon) + onychion (little claw)], also known as the cuticle, is the thickened layer of skin surrounding fingernails and toenails. Beneath the cuticle is a thin layer of a membrane known as the pterygium. ...
- A film composed of wax and cutin that occurs on the external surface of plant stems and leaves and helps to prevent water loss.
