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The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...
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. [14] 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 ...
Chemical nomenclature, replete as it is with compounds with very complex names, is a repository for some names that may be considered unusual. A browse through the Physical Constants of Organic Compounds in the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (a fundamental resource) will reveal not just the whimsical work of chemists, but the sometimes peculiar compound names that occur as the ...
Such a name is called a binomial name (often shortened to just "binomial"), a binomen, binominal name, or a scientific name; more informally, it is also called a Latin name. In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), the system is also called binominal nomenclature , [ 1 ] with an "n" before the "al" in "binominal", which is ...
It says: You mean so much to me that I can’t possibly call you by the same name as everyone else. Nicknames for girlfriends are a great example of this, providing the special woman in your life ...
A disease Max made up to get sympathy from a girl. It makes the infected person unable to hear, see, taste, smell anything orange. Motaba The Pretender ("A Virus Among Us") The episode borrows its center plot disease from the film Outbreak. Narrow urethra King of the Hill
My parents named me Dixie after seeing the name in the newspaper. Growing up, people would make fun of my name and come up with new nicknames. Kids made fun of my unusual name growing up.
“I just switched up my girls’ names a few hours ago!” says psychologist Amy Vigliotti, Ph.D., the Founding Head of SelfWorks in New York City, and the mother of two preschoolers. She uses a ...