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Other names Fractures with names Abraham Colles, Albert Hoffa, Percivall Pott, Guillaume Dupuytren, Léon Athanese Gosselin, Jacques Lisfranc, Paul Jules Tillaux, William H. Harris, Paul Segond, Giambattista Monteggia
Malpighian corpuscle – Marcello Malpighi, the name given to both renal corpuscle and splenic lymphoid nodules; Meckel's cartilage and Meckel's diverticulum – Johann Friedrich Meckel; Meibomian glands – Heinrich Meibom; Meissner's corpuscle and Meissner's plexus – Georg Meissner; Merkel cell – Friedrich Sigmund Merkel; Meyer's loop
It is composed of 270 bones at the time of birth, [2] but later decreases to 206: 80 bones in the axial skeleton and 126 bones in the appendicular skeleton. 172 of 206 bones are part of a pair and the remaining 34 are unpaired. [3] Many small accessory bones, such as sesamoid bones, are not included in this.
Dubbed the “Manis projectile point,” the ancient spear tip is the oldest bone weapon in America, researchers said in a study published Feb. 1. Estimated to be around 13,900 years old, the ...
Naia (designated as HN5/48) is the name [a] given to a 12,000 – to 13,000-year-old human skeleton of a teenage female who was found in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.Her bones were part of a 2007 discovery of a cache of animal bones in a cenote called Hoyo Negro (Spanish for "Black Hole") in the Sistema Sac Actun. [1]
Ata is the common name given to the 6-inch (15 cm) long skeletal remains of a human fetus [1] [2] found in 2003 in the Chilean ghost town of La Noria, in the Atacama Desert. DNA analysis done in 2018 on the premature human fetus identified unusual mutations associated with dwarfism and scoliosis, though these findings were later disputed.
We're unpacking the most head-turning city and town names in America. ... The weirdest town names in all 50 states, from Ketchuptown to Monkey's Eyebrow. Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY.
Unusual names have caused issues for scientists explaining genetic diseases to lay-people, such as when an individual is affected by a gene with an offensive or insensitive name. [13] This has particularly been noted in patients with a defect in the sonic hedgehog gene pathway and the disease formerly named CATCH22 for "cardiac anomaly, T-cell ...