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Other cold-related injuries that can be present either alone or in combination with hypothermia include: Chilblains: condition caused by repeated exposure of skin to temperatures just above freezing. The cold causes damage to small blood vessels in the skin. This damage is permanent and the redness and itching will return with additional exposure.
The first stage of cold water immersion syndrome, the cold shock response, includes a group of reflexes lasting under 5 min in laboratory volunteers and initiated by thermoreceptors sensing rapid skin cooling. Water has a thermal conductivity 25 times and a volume-specific heat capacity over 3000 times that of air; subsequently, surface cooling ...
A victim of Chinese water torture at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York A reproduction of a Chinese water torture apparatus at Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial Chinese water torture , or use of a dripping machine , [ 1 ] is a mentally painful process in which cold water is slowly dripped onto the scalp, forehead or face for a prolonged ...
Tony Abruzzo's splash page from "Run for Love!"in Secret Hearts no. 83 (November 1962) was the source for Drowning Girl.. Drowning Girl is derived from the splash page from "Run for Love!", illustrated by Tony Abruzzo and lettered by Ira Schnapp, in Secret Hearts #83 (November 1962), DC Comics.
More likely, however, is the thought that blood returning to her face, after the strangulation, makes her cheeks "rosy". Her "rosy little head" may also be a sly reference to the hymen; Porphyria leaves a "gay feast" and comes in from the outside world wearing "soiled gloves"; now her blue eyes, open in death, are "without a stain". [3]
"With Her Eyes" (Chinese: 带上她的眼睛; pinyin: dài shàng tā de yǎnjīng) is a science-fiction short story by Chinese writer Liu Cixin, first published in October 1999. The short story was included in the collection The Wandering Earth published by Head of Zeus in October 2017.
The Mpemba effect is the name given to the observation that a liquid (typically water) that is initially hot can freeze faster than the same liquid which begins cold, under otherwise similar conditions. There is disagreement about its theoretical basis and the parameters required to produce the effect.
Cut-eye is a visual gesture using one's eyes and face to communicate displeasure or disapproval, and in some cases hostility. The gesture is usually performed by looking at someone out of the corners of one's eyes, then turning the eyes away quickly down towards the foot opposite the eye of the person the gesture is being performed at.