blowing brains n.— «On Nov. 28, Dr. DeVries’s boss, Dr. Ruth Lynfield, the state epidemiologist, toured the plant. She and the owner, Kelly Wadding, paid special attention to the head table. Dr. Lynfield became transfixed by one procedure...
breeding pad n.— «As beef cattle grow and mature, rump fat is an early developing fat tissue. Textbooks of beef cattle anatomy often refer to it as the “breeding pad,” a protective fat Mother Nature put in place for mating...
stick n.— «Among employees at the Preston Valley donor center, Mr. Cone is known—in professional parlance—as a “difficult stick.” “He’s done this for so long, it’s difficult to hit him in the right place, where he...
bio-ink n.— «A printer that generates a scaffold onto which new bone can grow has been developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Bone Tissue Engineering Center (BTEC) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.…Alongside fibrin, the...
bio-ink n.— «For years, tissue engineers have used souped-up printers, and in some cases off-the-shelf models, to print “bio-inks.” These inks consist of anything from proteins to individual cells printed in microscopic...
pinfire v.— «The suggestion is that you should pinfire your horse.…Thermocautery, or pinfiring as it is commonly known in the horse industry, has been around for ages.…With firing, generally a hot iron is used to effectively...