Martin Buser, who lost part of a finger in a table-saw accident less than a week before the race and had exposed nerves trimmed by a veterinarian,finished 12th winning both the Sportsmanship and the Most Inspirational Musher awards.

But a shrewd man can capitalize on most situations, and Frank Zappa, leader of the Mothers of Invention, has made a successful career out of exposing bare nerves of the American body public and playing upon them with a series of audio and visual shocks.

The French research, including work by Dr. Herbert L. Koenig and Dr. Badia Ferzaz of the University of Bordeaux in Talence, involved exposing sciatic nerves in the legs of male mice, freezing the fibers and recording how the damaged nerves regenerated.

But when he tried to break it, it tore away like a protective scab, hurting his skin, exposing new nerves to the cold.

He wears black, hooded robes and covers his face with cloth, not only to hide his ugliness but mainly because he has exposed nerves and veins on his face that are very sensitive to vibrations of the outside world.

I was certain I could hear thick tearing as my hide was peeled away, exposing muscle, nerves, and hot viscid blood.

The graft skin is dissected to expose the veins and antebrachial cutaneous nerves.

All I know about ulcers is stomach ulcers...where the protective lining of the stomach wears down and exposes nerves to the acid of the stomach (or something like that...anybody else?)

Art that is the product of a sensibility that is reserved and modest is not likely to take anyone's breath away or expose raw nerves.

An L1 laminectomy is then performed: a section of the spine's bone, the spinous processes together with a portion of the lamina, are removed, like a drain-cap, to expose the spinal cord and spinal nerves underneath.