The very fact that the secretion of saliva in the young child does not become established until the third month after birth, seems to indicate that before that age farinaceous articles of diet are unsuited to the infant, as saliva is one of the most potent agents in the digestion of starchy foods.

His research, which has focused on the few partial kangaroo skeletons found, has provided insights into why the bulungamayine kangaroos were so successful while the balbarids vanished.

The ebullism syndrome arises when an individual is exposed to an ambient pressure that is less than the vapor pressure of body fluids at normothermic temperature, about 6kPa [197]. Whereas DCS is primarily characterized by the formation in tissues of the gas phase of inert gas, ebullism is characterized by the formation of the gas phase of water.

She checked their orbital position. She would have perhaps ten more minutes in darkside. The earth itself was a massive radiation shield between the station and the sun, and she would be perfectly safe.