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  2. Greef Karga - Wikipedia

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    Weathers' action sequences in "Chapter 3: The Sin" took a particularly long time to film due to the many elements involved in the shootout scene. [14] In Greef Karga's scenes with the Client, played by German film director Werner Herzog , Weathers deliberately made Greef less confident and commanding than normal to convey that the Client was a ...

  3. List of bones of the human skeleton - Wikipedia

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    It is composed of 270 bones at the time of birth, [2] but later decreases to 206: 80 bones in the axial skeleton and 126 bones in the appendicular skeleton. 172 of 206 bones are part of a pair and the remaining 34 are unpaired. [3] Many small accessory bones, such as sesamoid bones, are not included in this.

  4. Endochondral ossification - Wikipedia

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    Endochondral ossification is responsible for development of most bones including long and short bones, [4] the bones of the axial (ribs and vertebrae) and the appendicular skeleton (e.g. upper and lower limbs), [5] the bones of the skull base (including the ethmoid and sphenoid bones) [6] and the medial end of the clavicle. [7]

  5. De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem - Wikipedia

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    The Fabrica is known for its highly detailed illustrations of human dissections, often in allegorical poses.. De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (Latin, "On the Fabric of the Human Body in Seven Books") is a set of books on human anatomy written by Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) and published in 1543.

  6. Sphenoid bone - Wikipedia

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    Figure 4 : Sphenoid bone at birth, posterior aspect. Until the seventh or eighth month of fetal development , the body of the sphenoid consists of two parts: one in front of the tuberculum sellae , the presphenoid, with which the small wings are continuous; the other, consisting of the sella turcica and dorsum sellae , the postsphenoid, with ...

  7. Personifications of death - Wikipedia

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    In Breton folklore, a spectral figure called the Ankou (or Angau in Welsh) portends death. Usually, the Ankou is the spirit of the last person that died within the community and appears as a tall, haggard figure with a wide hat and long white hair or a skeleton with a revolving head. The Ankou drives a deathly wagon or cart with a creaking axle.

  8. Vertebra - Wikipedia

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    [5] Anatomy of a vertebra. The vertebral arch is formed by pedicles and laminae. Two pedicles extend from the sides of the vertebral body to join the body to the arch. The pedicles are short thick processes that extend, one from each side, posteriorly, from the junctions of the posteriolateral surfaces of the centrum, on its upper surface.

  9. Osteon - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of a typical long bone showing both compact (cortical) and cancellous (spongy) bone. Osteons on cross-section of a bone. In osteology, the osteon or haversian system (/ h ə ˈ v ɜːr. ʒ ən /; named for Clopton Havers) is the fundamental functional unit of much compact bone.