enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. PIGA accelerometer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIGA_accelerometer

    The PIGA was based on an accelerometer developed by Dr. Fritz Mueller, then of the Kreiselgeraete Company, for the LEV-3 and experimental SG-66 guidance system of the Nazi era German V2 (EMW A4) ballistic missile and was known among the German rocket scientists as the MMIA "Mueller Mechanical Integrating Accelerometer". This system used ...

  3. Appendage - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appendage

    A beetle leg. An appendage (or outgrowth) is an external body part or natural prolongation that protrudes from an organism's body such as an arm or a leg. Protrusions from single-celled bacteria and archaea are known as cell-surface appendages or surface appendages.

  4. Artiodactyl - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artiodactyl

    The pig-like creatures are made up of two families: The pigs are limited to the Old World. These include the wild boar and the domesticated form, the domestic pig. The peccaries (Tayassuidae) are named after glands on their belly and are indigenous to Central and South America. The ruminants consist of six families:

  5. Entelodontidae - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entelodontidae

    A restricted definition of Suina is still in use, as a major artiodactyl suborder encompassing Tayassuidae (peccaries) and Suidae (pigs). Early cladistic phylogenetic analyses of artiodactyls placed Entelodontidae as the sister taxon to a Tayassuidae + Suidae clade. This seemed to justify the frequent morphological comparisons between ...

  6. Fetal pig - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_pig

    Because the fetal pigs were still in the mother's uterus, teeth will still form which supports reasons for hollow unerupted teeth that may be seen. Similar to human dental anatomy, the overall dental anatomy of the pig consists of incisors, canines, pre-molars, and molars. Piglets can have 28 teeth total and adult pigs can have 44 teeth total. [21]

  7. List of anatomy mnemonics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anatomy_mnemonics

    This is a list of human anatomy mnemonics, categorized and alphabetized.For mnemonics in other medical specialties, see this list of medical mnemonics.Mnemonics serve as a systematic method for remembrance of functionally or systemically related items within regions of larger fields of study, such as those found in the study of specific areas of human anatomy, such as the bones in the hand ...

  8. Pig - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig

    The pig (Sus domesticus), also called swine (pl.: swine) or hog, is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal. It is named the domestic pig when distinguishing it from other members of the genus Sus. It is considered a subspecies of Sus scrofa (the wild boar or Eurasian boar) by some authorities, but as a distinct species by others.

  9. Stifle joint - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stifle_joint

    This dog's stifle joint is labeled 12. The stifle joint (often simply stifle) is a complex joint in the hind limbs of quadruped mammals such as the sheep, horse or dog.It is the equivalent of the human knee and is often the largest synovial joint in the animal's body.