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Anatomy of a Devanagari typeface. Typeface anatomy describes the graphic elements that make up letters in a typeface. [1] [2] Typefaces are born from the struggle between rules and results. Squeezing a square about 1% helps it look more like a square; to appear the same height as a square, a circle must be measurably taller. The two strokes in ...
This is a list of human anatomy mnemonics, categorized and alphabetized.For mnemonics in other medical specialties, see this list of medical mnemonics.Mnemonics serve as a systematic method for remembrance of functionally or systemically related items within regions of larger fields of study, such as those found in the study of specific areas of human anatomy, such as the bones in the hand ...
Cajal cell – Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), Spanish pathologist; Cajal–Retzius cell – Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Gustaf Retzius (1842–1919), Swedish histologist
This article contains a list of organs in the human body. It is widely believed that there are 79 organs (this number goes up if you count each bone and muscle as an organ on their own, which is becoming a more common practice [1] [2]); however, there is no universal standard definition of what constitutes an organ, and some tissue groups' status as one is debated. [3]
Storey refers to the number of open or closed stacked counters, especially in the context of the letters a and g and their typographic variants.. The lowercase 'g' has two typographic variants: the single-storey form (with a hook tail) has one closed counter and one open counter (and hence one aperture); the double-storey form (with a loop tail) has two closed counters.
Typically, this is the height of the letter x in the font (the source of the term), as well as the letters v, w, and z. (Curved letters such as a , c , e , m , n , o , r , s , and u tend to exceed the x-height slightly, due to overshoot ; i has a dot that tends to go above x-height.)
Older set of terminology shown in Parts of the Human Body: Posterior and Anterior View from the 1933 edition of Sir Henry Morris' Human Anatomy. Many of these terms are medical latin terms that have fallen into disuse. Front: Frons - forehead; Facies - face; Pectus - breast; Latus - flank; Coxa - hip; Genu - knee; Pes - foot; Back: Vertex ...
anatomy and physiology: A/P: anatomy and physiology assessment and plan: APACHE II: Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II: APAP: paracetamol (aka acetaminophen) (from its chemical name, N-acetyl-para-aminophenol) automatic positive airway pressure: APC: atrial premature contraction antigen-presenting cell activated protein C argon ...