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Blue mussels, Mytilus edulis, are sessile and exhibit clumping. Clumping is a behavior in sessile organisms in which individuals of a particular species group closely to one another for beneficial purposes, as can be seen in coral reefs and cochineal populations. This allows for faster reproduction and better protection from predators.
Anembryonic gestation, anembryonic pregnancy Transvaginal ultrasonography showing a gestational sac with a diameter of 28 mm, corresponding to a gestational age of approximately 7 weeks and 5 days. It contains a yolk sac (protruding from its lower part) but no embryo, even after scanning across all planes of the gestational sac, thus being ...
This is a shortened version of the eleventh chapter of the ICD-9: Complications of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Puerperium. It covers ICD codes 630 to 679 . The full chapter can be found on pages 355 to 378 of Volume 1, which contains all (sub)categories of the ICD-9.
ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. [1]
Order Desmothoracida, the desmothoracids, are a group of heliozoan protists, usually sessile and found in freshwater environments. The adult is a spherical cell around 10-20 μm in diameter surrounded by a perforated organic lorica , or shell, with many radial pseudopods projecting through the holes to capture food.
Sessility, or sessile, may refer to: Sessility (motility), organisms which are not able to move about; Sessility (botany), flowers or leaves that grow directly from the stem or peduncle of a plant; Sessility (medicine), tumors and polyps that lack a stalk
A lithopedion (also spelled lithopaedion or lithopædion; from Ancient Greek: λίθος "stone" and Ancient Greek: παιδίον "small child, infant"), or stone baby, is a rare phenomenon which occurs most commonly when a fetus dies during an abdominal pregnancy, [1] is too large to be reabsorbed by the body, and calcifies on the outside as ...
[10] Endometrial polyps can be solitary or occur with others. [11] They are round or oval and measure between a few millimeters and several centimeters in diameter. [7] [11] They are usually the same red/brown color of the surrounding endometrium although large ones can appear to be a darker red. [7]