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  • There’s the peritoneum which lines the abdominal cavity.

    It’s got a bunch of blood vessels to exchange chemicals so it’s common to do kidney dialysis right into the abdominal cavity instead of the blood directly. Unlike hemodialysis, the machines can be taken home and operated by the patient.

    And in vaginoplasties when they don’t have enough tissue to do just a penile inversion, they can now pull through the peritoneum to help construct the vaginal canal instead of doing a colon graft.










  • azi@mander.xyztoScience Memes@mander.xyz#notaseagull
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    15 days ago

    The buffalo thing pisses me off the most. Entire cultures are defined by that animal and it’s incredibly significant to the history of the prairies and the continent as a whole. So it seems to me pretty disrespectful to go to these people and go “um actually what you’ve been calling this animal for centuries is wrong actually because Linnaeus or whatever”







  • azi@mander.xyztoScience Memes@mander.xyzFruit Flies
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    23 days ago

    The fruit flies you’ve seen eating fresh fruit are probably Drosophila suzukii (spotted wing fruit fly). Most (all?) other Drosophila species (including the model organism Drosophila melanogaster) only feed on rotting fruit. Though they’ll consume the sugars too, not just the microorganisms. So standard lab diets include sugar along with yeast and often cornmeal.

    There are also some more distantly related flies that feed on fresh fruit and are commonly called fruit flies, eg Ceratitis capitata (Mediterranean fruit fly)


  • azi@mander.xyzto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneGeorge Rule
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    26 days ago

    What? The closest thing to an abolition of slavery by British authorities was Dunmore’s Proclamation which was proclaimed well after the Revolution had turned into open war. The American Revolution wasn’t motivated by any real or perceived threat to the institution of slavery.