Dense Bodies

Dense bodies can refer to:

  • granules in blood platelets
  • electron-dense portions of smooth muscle which thin filaments (actin and tropomyosin namely) bind

Famous quotes containing the words dense and/or bodies:

    “A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “What is wanted—whether this is admitted or not—is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicting all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)