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• Their large body habitus and comorbidities render them high-risk surgical candidates requiring thorough planning and implementation of care.
• To determine the effects of craniofacial characteristics and body habitus on the collapsibility of the pharynx, Watanabe and coworkers measured closing pressures of the passive pharynx in 54 men with sleep-disordered breathing.
• During pregnancy, a woman undergoes many physiological and hormonal changes that can alter her metabolism and body habitus.
• This collective ethos forms what Pierre Bourdieu, the French sociologist, called the habitus, the coherent amalgam of practices linking habit with inhabitance. 'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
• The project has meanwhile advanced, however, and the research fellows have long since grown accustomed to speaking of technology in the sense of habitus, medium, infrastructure, and technostructures of society or human action.
• Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging. Brene Brown 
• Hybrids are most easily recognizable by their intermediate habitus.
• Some people - especially women - may switch to vegetarianism as a means of restricting energy intake to attain the lean body habitus favored in some sports.
• Dampierae proxime habitu et plurimis cum floris, tum habitus characteribus, paracolla cuculliforme ab omnibus Goodeniacearum generibus huc usque cognitis, diversa. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
• Saint Thomas Aquinas,4 using the terminology of the philosophical tradition to which he belonged, explains it as follows: faith is a habitus, that is, a stable disposition of the spirit, through which eternal life takes root in us and reason is led to consent to what it does not see. Latest Articles