VERTEBRAL COLUMN: levator scapulae | rhomboid (major, minor) | serratus anterior | latissimus dorsi ANTERIOR AND LATERAL THORACIC WALLS: pectoralis (major, minor) | subclavius SHOULDER AND ROTATOR CUFF: deltoid | infraspinatus | subscapularis | supraspinatus | teres (major, minor) ARM: anconeus | biceps brachii | triceps brachii | brachialis | coracobrachialis FOREARM: brachioradialis | extensor carpi radialis (brevis, longus) | extensor carpi ulnaris ...

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Brain - Fields of study. Several areas of science specifically study the brain. Neuroscience seeks to understand the nervous system, including the brain, from a biological and computational perspective. Psychology seeks to understand behavior and the brain. The terms neurology and psychiatry usually refer to medical applications of neuroscience and psychology respectively. Cognitive science seeks to unify neuroscience and psychology with other fields that concern themselves with the brain, such as computer science (artificial ...

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Like most other internal organs, the brain can serve as nourishment. For example, in the Southern United States canned pork brain in gravy can be purchased for consumption as food. The form of brain is often fried with scrambled eggs to produce the famous "Eggs n' Brains"[12]. The brain of animals also features in French cuisine such as in the dish [tête de veau], or head of calf. Although it might consist only of the outer meat of the sk ...

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Despite the variance of the species in which the brain is found there are many common features in its cellular make-up, its structure, and its function. On a cellular level the brain is composed of two classes of cells, neurons and glia, both of which contain several different cell types which perform different functions. Interconnected neurons form neural networks (or neural ensembles). These networks are similar to man-made electrical circuits in that they contain circuit elements (neurons) connected by biological wires (nerve fibers). The ...

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A distinction is sometimes made in the philosophy of mind between the mind and brain. The brain is defined as the physical, biological [[for all electrochemical neuronal processes. The mind, however, exits as something outside of the brain. The mind is sometimes thought of as consciousness, the soul, or some other non-physical center of thought. The inability to determine what consciousness is has led to the mind-body problem. Some philosophers such as strong AI theorists believe that the mind is analogous to comp ...

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ILIAC REGION: gluteus (maximus, medius, minimus) | iliacus | gemellus (inferior, superior) | obturator (externus, internus) | quadratus femoris | piriformis | tensor fasciae latae THIGH: adductor (brevis, longus, magnus) | gracilis | hamstring (semitendinosus, semimembranosus, biceps femoris) | sartorius | pectineus | quadriceps (rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus intermedius, vastus medialis) LEG: tibialis (anterior, posterior) | flexor digitorum (longus, bre ...

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Visual area V5, also known as visual area MT (middle/medial temporal), is a region in the extrastriate cortex that appears to process complex visual motion stimuli. It contains many neurons selective for the motion of complex visual features (line ends, corners). Much work has been carried out on this region as it appears to integrate local visual motion signals into the global motion of co ...

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Unlike other parts of the body clothing is most often not worn on the head. The most common headwear is a hat. This may be either a woolen hat, designed to keep the head warm or a baseball cap, to protect against the sun. In some african and asian cultures a turban is worn by men the same way. Women from islamic cultures sometimes wear veils which cover the hair. These two items are may be religiously mandatory. Hoods or balaclavas are designed mainly to keep the neck warm but may also hide the face. Wearing of non-religious clothing ...

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In humans, the lateral area of the posterior prefrontal cortex (the side toward the back) is arranged from top to bottom in areas that correspond to the buttocks, torso, shoulder, elbow, wrist, fingers, thumb, eyelids, lips and jaw. Interior sections of the motor area folding into the medial longitudinal fissure correspond with the legs. This arrangement, elucidated by Wilder Penfield and others, is call ...

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Mini-implant Illustration Mini dental implants are ultra-small diameter (1.8 millimeter width), biocompatible titanium alloy implant screws, conceived and designed over 20 years ago by a dentist, Victor I. Sendax, DDS. He created this unique dental product as a transitional device to help support fixed bridge replacements for lost teeth. His novel theory was that mini implants could function free standing by themselves or in combination with natural tooth supports and/or larger conventional type dental implants. This was ...

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This is a list of the taxonomic orders in the class Aves. The list of birds gives a more detailed summary, including families. Paleognathae: Struthioniformes, Ostrich, emus, kiwis, and allies Tinamiformes, tinamous Neognathae: Anseriformes, waterfowl Galliformes, fowl Gaviiformes, loons Podicipediformes, grebes Procellariiformes, albatrosses, petrels, and allies Sphenisciformes, penguins Pelecaniformes, pelicans and allies C ...

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In some regions, notably arid tropical savannas, termites construct extremely large and elaborate mounds which house their colonies. These mounds can have very distinctive forms, such as those of the compass termite (Amitermes meridionalis & A. laurensis) which build tall wedge-shaped mounds with the long axis oriented approximately north-south. This orientation has been experimentally shown to ease the termites' thermoregulation workload. Some mounds can reach heights of 6 metres, but most species build mounds of less than ...

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Termites are generally grouped according to their feeding behaviour. Thus the commonly used general groupings are: Subterranean, Soil-feeding, Drywood, Dampwood and Grass eating. Of these, subterraneans and drywoods are primarily responsible damage to structures. All termites eat cellulose in its various forms as plant fibre. Cellulose is a rich energy source (think of wood fires), but difficult to digest. Termites rely primarily upon symbiotic protozoa (metamonads) and other microbes in their gut to digest the cellulose for them, abs ...

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Medical literature first recognised the existence of the clitoris in the 16th century. This is the subject of some dispute: Realdo Colombo (also known as Matteo Renaldo Colombo) was a lecturer in surgery at the University of Padua, Italy, and in 1559 he published a book called De re anatomica in which he described the "seat of woman's delight". Colombo concluded, "Since no one has discerned these projections and their workings, if it is permissible to give names to things discovered by me, ...

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People who are more intelligent than normal are sometimes depicted in cartoons as having bigger heads, as a way of indicating that they have more brains; in science fiction, an alien having a big head is often symbolic of high intelligence. However, minor changes in brain size do not have much affect on intelligence in humans. For humans, the head and particularly the face are the main distinguishing feature between different people, due to their easily discernible features such as hair and eye color, nose, eye and mouth shapes, wrinkles, etc. In English slang, sometimes a boastful ...

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Birds are generally considered to have evolved from theropod dinosaurs. Specifically, birds are members of Maniraptora, a group of theropods which includes dromaeosaurs and oviraptorids, among others. As more non-avian theropods that are closely related to birds are discovered, the formerly clear distinction between non-birds and birds becomes less so. Recent discoveries in northeast China (Liaoning Province) demonstrating that many small theropod dinosaurs had feat ...

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Termites do not physically resemble ants; their "white ant" name is probably due to their similar size and social habits. Termites have biting mouthparts and their soft bodies are small, rarely over 10 mm in length. They typically inhabit dark nests and tunnels, only venturing out when the winged alates emerge to leave their parent colony, when constructing shelter or, in the case of grass-eaters, when harvesting grass stems. The bodies of flying individuals are dark, while termites which remain in the nest are whitish with only their ...

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Definition and meaning of Insurance :

A contract whereby an insurer promises to pay the insured a sum of money or some other benefit upon the happening of one or more uncertain events in exchange for the payment of a premium. There must be uncertainty as to whether the relevant event(s) may happen at all or, if they will occur (e.g. death) as to their timing.

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