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  2. Prosthetics in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Numerous works of literature, television, and films feature characters who have prosthetics attached. Prosthetics are used, in a narrative sense, to either, provide a plot point in the characters back-story, a plot point to give to character a disability (or more often in Science fiction, an advantage), or just to distinguish the character in ...

  3. Biology in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Boris Karloff in James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein, based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel.The monster is created by an unorthodox biology experiment.. Biology appears in fiction, especially but not only in science fiction, both in the shape of real aspects of the science, used as themes or plot devices, and in the form of fictional elements, whether fictional extensions or applications of ...

  4. Anatomical variation - Wikipedia

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    Anatomical variations are categorized into three types including morphometric (size or shape), consistency (present or absent), and spatial (proximal/distal or right/left). [ 1 ] Variations are seen as normal in the sense that they are found consistently among different individuals, are mostly without symptoms, and are termed anatomical ...

  5. List of anatomical variations - Wikipedia

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    Linburg-Comstock variation - or conjoint flexor pollicis longus and flexor digitorum profundus of the index; Sternalis muscle - or rectus thoracis; Psoas minor muscle; Palmaris profundus muscle; Pterygoideus proprius muscle; Styloauricularis muscle; Transversus nuchae muscle; Accessory popliteus muscle; Tensor fasciae suralis muscle ...

  6. Category:Science fiction film characters - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Science fiction film characters" The following 195 pages are in this category, out of 195 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.

  7. List of organisms named after works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    "Genus named after Buratina, a long-nosed character of the science fiction novel by Michael Kharitonov." [197] Meoneura mucki Stuke & Barták, 2019: Fly: Little Muck (German fairy tale) "The "Kleine Muck" is a participant of Wilhelm Hauff's fairy tale "Die Karavane".

  8. Organ transplantation in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Organ transplantation is a common theme in science fiction and horror fiction, appearing as early as 1925, in Russian short story Professor Dowell's Head. [1] It may be used as a device to examine identity, power and loss of power, [2] current medical systems; explore themes of bodily autonomy; or simply as a vehicle for body horror or other fantastical plots.

  9. Morphology (biology) - Wikipedia

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    The etymology of the word "morphology" is from the Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ), meaning "form", and λόγος (lógos), meaning "word, study, research". [2] [3]While the concept of form in biology, opposed to function, dates back to Aristotle (see Aristotle's biology), the field of morphology was developed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1790) and independently by the German anatomist ...