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The flat bones are: the occipital, parietal, frontal, nasal, lacrimal, vomer, sternum, ribs, and scapulae. [1] These bones are composed of two thin layers of compact bone enclosing between them a variable quantity of cancellous bone, [1] which is the location of red bone marrow. In an adult, most red blood cells are formed in flat
A sesamoid bone is a small, round bone that, as the name suggests, is shaped like a sesame seed. These bones form in tendons (the sheaths of tissue that connect bones to muscles) where a great deal of pressure is generated in a joint. The sesamoid bones protect tendons by helping them overcome compressive forces.
Oxbow lake – U-shaped lake or pool left by an ancient river meander; Panhole – Depression or basin eroded into flat or gently sloping cohesive rock; Pothole – Natural bowl-shaped hollow carved into a streambed; Plunge pool – Depression at the base of a waterfall; Pond – Relatively small body of standing water
Q-shape, the shape that resembles the capital letter Q; R-shape, the shape that resembles the capital letter R; S-shape, the shape that resembles the capital letter S. The sigmoid colon, an S-shaped bend in the human intestine; S-twist, contrasted with Z-twist for yarn; T-shape, the shape that resembles the capital letter T. T junction
It looks like a face sticking out of the hillside, and as you travel past in a car towards Buxton the 'eye' appears to wink, as a pinnacle of rock passes behind the face as a consequence of parallax. [ 6 ] [ 5 ] A public house near Ramshaw Rocks at Upper Hulme takes its name from the Winking Man rock.
Roopkund (locally known as Mystery Lake or Skeleton Lake) [1] is a high altitude glacial lake in the Uttarakhand state of India.It lies in the lap of Trishul massif.Located in the Himalayas, the area around the lake is uninhabited and is roughly at an altitude of 5,020 metres (16,470 ft), [1] surrounded by rock-strewn glaciers and snow-clad mountains.
A Norwegian mnemonic is "When it looks like a comma, it's coming!" (nor: Når han ser ut som et komma, så kom'an / kom'ern!). In Hebrew the shape of the letter is also correlated to what the rising and waning moon. It is rising when it looks like the cursive ז which is also the first word in זורח (to rise) and the moon is waning when it ...
The bones of the wrist and ankle are short bones. Flat bones are thin and generally curved, with two parallel layers of compact bone sandwiching a layer of spongy bone. Most of the bones of the skull are flat bones, as is the sternum. [39] Sesamoid bones are bones embedded in tendons. Since they act to hold the tendon further away from the ...