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  2. Conservation and restoration of bone, horn, and antler objects

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    Water can come from roofs leaking during rainstorms, floods, fire sprinkler systems, or broken pipes. [7] It can soften and destroy the bone, antler, or horn if it becomes waterlogged. Mold and mildew growth can cause further damage. If the water in the crevices or pores of the bone, antler, or horn were to freeze, it would crack the object.

  3. Maceration (bone) - Wikipedia

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    Macerated skeletons of a Great Dane and a Chihuahua, on display at The Museum of Osteology, in Oklahoma City.. Maceration is a bone preparation technique whereby a clean skeleton is obtained from a vertebrate carcass by leaving it to decompose inside a closed container at near-constant temperature. [1]

  4. Gashadokuro - Wikipedia

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    The Gashadokuro is a spirit that takes the form of a giant skeleton made of the skulls of people who died in the battlefield or of starvation/famine (while the corpse becomes a gashadokuro, the spirit becomes a separate yōkai, known as hidarugami.), and is 10 or more meters tall.

  5. Musculoskeletal injury - Wikipedia

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    Some cases can result in spinal cord damage at the C3-C5 levels, producing a myelopathy which can dramatically compromise overall movements in arm and legs as well as other fine motor functions. [1] Injury to the rotator cuff Is a result of trauma and old age, complete and partial tears are more frequent in older patients caused by degeneration ...

  6. Hydrostatic skeleton - Wikipedia

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    Many animals with a wormlike cylindrical body have a hydrostatic skeleton with a flexible skin and a water-filled body cavity (coelom or pseudocoelom). They move by peristalsis, using opposed circular and longitudinal muscles, which act on the hydrostatic skeleton to change the body's shape. Hydrostatic skeletons are typically arranged in a ...

  7. Plesiosaur - Wikipedia

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    The vertebrae show no such damage: they were probably protected by a superior blood supply, made possible by the arteries entering the bone through the two foramina subcentralia, large openings in their undersides. [116] Descending would have been helped by a negative Archimedes Force, i.e. being denser than water. Of course, this would have ...

  8. I tried Home Depot’s viral Halloween decor, and my yard has ...

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    Once you take a step back from the towering skeleton, it really is an impressive piece of decor. After setting it up in my yard, I understand why people love it so much, and ultimately, I do think ...

  9. Mine dewatering - Wikipedia

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    The act of taking water from a mine that is being operated has been done since Neolithic times. In the past it was done by using a shadoof , digging deeper dikes so that gravity would remove the water, by mounting leather water-filled buckets on water wheels [ 2 ] or, if nothing else, carrying water-filled buckets manually.