... (candle), from Latin candela,
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ANOTHER WORD A DAY
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how
they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
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, ... actually the name of a muscle. Its claim to fame is that
it’s the largest muscle in thehuman body. Can you guess where one
can find it? Hint: you sit on it. An incredible machine, the human
body ... around the Sun
in the same way as it has in the past and will bring the summer
to ripen the mangoes. Patterns are good, too—most of the time.
They help us find our shoes easily among an array of other...
... extend into the body- wall as the costal processes. The hinder part of the posterior mass joins the
anterior mass of the succeeding segment to form the vertebral body. Each vertebral body is therefore ...
VII. The Veins
1. Introduction
2. The Pulmonary Veins
3. The Systemic Veins
a. The Veins of the Heart
b. The Veins of the Head and Neck
1. The Veins of the Exterior of the Head and Face
2. The ... process. By the
eighth week the cartilaginous arch has fused with the body, and in the fourth month the two halves of the
arch are joined on the dorsal aspect of the neural tube. The spinous...
... femoris)
The humanbody possesses a great variety of muscles.
The architecture of the muscles depends on the functional
systems in which they are involved, i.e., the kind of move-
ments,
the form ... Ossification of the Bones
1 Ossification center in the
head of the femur
2 Greater trochanter
3 Head of the femur
4 Neck of the femur
The ossification of the bones of the limbs starts within
the ossification ... orienta-
tion are used, e.g., the parasternal line, the midclavicular
line, the anterior axillary line, the umbilical-pelvic line.
By means of these lines, the heart and the position of the
vermiform process...