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The use of the calabash in Hawaii has led to terms like "calabash family" or "calabash cousins", indicating an extended family grown up around shared meals and close friendships. This gourd is often dried when ripe and used as a percussion instrument called an ipu heke (double gourd drum) or just Ipu in contemporary and ancient hula .
Crescentia cujete, dry fruit and seeds – MHNT Flower Pollen grains, magnified. Crescentia cujete, commonly known as the calabash tree, is a species of flowering plant native to the Americas, that is grown in Africa, South-East Asia, Central America, South America, the West Indies and extreme southern Florida. [2]
The appendicular skeleton, comprising the arms and legs, including the shoulder and pelvic girdles, contains 126 bones, bringing the total for the entire skeleton to 206 bones. Infants are born with about 270 bones [ 4 ] with most of it being cartilage, but will later fuse together and decrease over time to 206 bones.
Crescentia (calabash tree, huingo, krabasi, or kalebas) is a genus of six species [2] of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and northern South America. [1]
Comparative anatomy is the study of similarities and differences in the anatomy of different species. It is closely related to evolutionary biology and phylogeny [ 1 ] (the evolution of species). The science began in the classical era , continuing in the early modern period with work by Pierre Belon who noted the similarities of the skeletons ...
Cuttlebone, also known as cuttlefish bone, is a hard, brittle internal structure (an internal shell) found in all members of the family Sepiidae, commonly known as cuttlefish, within the cephalopods. In other cephalopod families it is called a gladius .
Bone saw: used to cut bones like that of the head Skull breaker or often a (hammer and chisel) to break open the vault of the skull Sternal saw: for cutting into the chest of the body by cutting the sternum: Dissecting knife: sharp cutting instruments Toothed forceps: for tearing or holding structures Mallet: used as a hammer: Skull key
The fascia merges with the periosteum (outer bone layer) of the humerus. [8] The anterior compartment contains three muscles: biceps brachii, brachialis and coracobrachialis muscles. They are all innervated by the musculocutaneous nerve. The posterior compartment contains only the triceps brachii muscle, supplied by the radial nerve. [9] [10] [11]