Popular until the 1960s, the conk hair style was achieved through the application of a painful lye, egg and potato mixture that was toxic and immediately burned the scalp.
The conks were once collected extensively for production of medicinal quinine, which they were thought to contain, because of the bitter taste of the powdered conk.
The conk section has an average of six 130 to 163 m diameter tubes per millimeter.
White pockets usually develop where the conks develop, but the decay may extend 4 ft above and 5 ft below a conk.
The sterile conk is irregularly formed and has the appearance of burnt charcoal.
The conk section has an average of three, 130 to 540 m diameter tubes per millimeter.
The bulldog is conked by a falling anvil, and ends up swallowing the whistle, triggering a case of the hiccups, each one of which causes the whistle to go off.
He works for a living, and if that leg conks out he no longer has a spare.
