(1) With outdoor exposure, remains are more likely to pass through a long period of dehydration of outer tissues, mummification, and reduction of desiccated tissue.
(2) There are still disputes over mummy portraits, for example whether they were done while the subjects were alive or after they were dead, as part of the 70-day mummification process.
(3) For 4,732 pregnancies followed from 2,163 cows in a 6.5 year period, the respective proportions (percentage) of cows aborting (1--cumulative proportion not aborting by 260 days) and abortion densities (abortions per 10,000 cow-days-at-risk) were 10.63 and 6.29 for all fetal deaths, 9.36 and 5.49 for deaths resulting in fetal expulsion, and 1.39 and 0.80 for deaths resulting in mummification.
(4) The unvaccinated ewes responded to the infection with abortion, resorption of the fetus, mummification or no changes at all.
(5) Detection of the positive antibody was associated with clinical herd history of increased mummification, stillbirth and neonatal death.
(6) The spectrum and degree of limb gangrene ranged from phalangeal necrosis to distal limb mummification affecting one or more limbs.
(7) to correct cases of fetal mummification in two Holstein cows are described.
(8) The main purpose of such exposures of the injured areas is to achieve mummification and to make the operation as early as possible.
(9) The radiological findings provided further information regarding the technique of mummification and the method of burial.
(10) There was graphic depiction of the mummification process that corroborated information previously obtained from Egyptological studies.
(11) The virus crosses the placenta readily and can cause foetal death with resorption, mummification or stillbirths.
(12) The greatest degree of mummification was seen with the calcium hydroxide-saline paste.
(13) Although fetuses are normally resorbed prior to calcification, fetal death after that stage of development leads to mummification.
(14) Occurrence and type (resorption, abortion, stillbirth, mummification) of pregnancy loss in the dog and cat depend on the cause of the loss and the stage of gestation at which it occurs.
(15) Evidence is reviewed in support of the hypothesis that immature unkeratinized fetal skin must be present if bovine fetal mummification is to occur.
(16) The virus caused fetal reabsorption in swine during the first period of pregnancy (group A), while infection during late pregnancy resulted in still birth or normal pigs and one mummification (group B).
(17) He has told us of mummification and mass graves; the heads once displayed on spikes at the entrance to London Bridge; and the bodies that washed up in dead man's hole in the Thames, before being taken to a mortuary.
(18) Aspergillus ochraceus Wilhelm was isolated from Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Latreille) ticks infected under natural conditions, and developing an illness characterized by absence of oviposition, mummification and death.
(19) These features included abortion, mummification, stillbirth, premature and term birth of weak calves and full-term birth of live apparently healthy calves.
(20) Artificial mummification was practised in Egypt from approximately 2600 BC until the fourth century AD.
Mummify
Definition:
(v. t.) To embalm and dry as a mummy; to make into, or like, a mummy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Factors associated with incidence of mummified fetuses at 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15 wk of gestation were determined in a cross-sectional design involving 209 pregnant pigs.
(2) Tissues from mummified fetuses should be cultured and examined by fluorescent antibody techniques for viruses.
(3) A 34-year-old man had an unusual mummified cutaneous mixed tumor that developed shortly after trauma.
(4) Many of the bodies are mummified, most of them were not interred, but deposited in caves.
(5) At the same time in serological examination (in the antibody neutralization test) of bird pellets, 52 mummified cadavers, and 34 excretion samples of mammalian beasts of prey collected in Armenia (its central and North-Western part) in 1973 the antigen of tularemia microbe was revealed in 73, 8, and 3, and of plagye--in 42, 5, and 1 cases, respectively.
(6) A well-preserved mummified child from about A.D. 1200 was recovered fron Canyon de Chelly in northeastern Arizona in 1971.
(7) The results suggest that evaluation of the relative proportions of Mu-type element components and, possibly, other maize genomic components in single mummified kernels, may offer a new key to the study of ancient maize populations.
(8) Proposed methods for softening mummified fingers have been either unsuccessful in adequately softening the fingers or have been highly destructive.
(9) Those that developed antibody during the middle third of pregnancy had fewer piglets born alive, more stillborn piglets and more mummified foetuses.
(10) An outbreak of porcine parvovirus infection caused the preweaning mortality and number of mummified fetuses to increase to 50% and 4.10 per litter, respectively.
(11) These complex studies indicated the samples to be naturally mummified human brain tissue and that this process had occurred due to specific conditions within the cranial cavities after burial.
(12) And my mind turned again to Michael Gove , who, to put their relationship in terms of Gove’s beloved Dennis Wheatley, is the supplicant Simon Aron to Boris’s satanic Mocata, their joint prize the mummified phallus of Conservative party power.
(13) Atomic absorption spectrophotometry of tissue cations suggests a correlation between degree of preservation of mummified tissue and levels of sodium salts (natron) in the tissue.
(14) Quaint language and interesting historical associations are no justification for preserving obsolete statutes in a mummified state.
(15) In experiments designed to assess sex chromatin in artificially mummified and heated pulp tissue, a method was devised that successfully separates cells while minimizing nuclear damage.
(16) A mummified crocodile in the back streets of Oxford might not be an obvious guardian for one of life's great mysteries.
(17) Sows infected with Ls-1 produced piglets or mummified fetuses that were virus-negative.
(18) This report details a fingerprinting technique for softening mummified fingers and hands using Metaflow and Restorative, a fluid for rehydration of desiccated tissue.
(19) While sterilizing a cat, a mummified pup is found in her abdominal cavity.
(20) Fetus papyraceus is a mummified, compressed fetus occurring in association with a viable twin.