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  2. Deadheading - Wikipedia

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    Deadheading can refer to the following: Dead mileage, the movement of commercial vehicles in non-revenue mode for logistical reasons; Deadheading (flowers), the pruning of dead flower heads; Deadheading (employee), carrying, free of charge, a transport company's own staff on a normal passenger trip

  3. Osteocyte - Wikipedia

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    The cell also exhibits a reduced size endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus and mitochondria, and cell processes that radiate largely towards the bone surfaces in circumferential lamellae, or towards a haversian canal and outer cement line typical of osteons in concentric lamellar bone. [5] Osteocytes form an extensive lacunocanalicular ...

  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. Ossification - Wikipedia

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    The canal of the nutrient foramen is directed away from more active end of bone when one end grows more than the other. When bone grows at same rate at both ends, the nutrient artery is perpendicular to the bone. Most other bones (e.g. vertebrae) also have primary ossification centers, and bone is laid down in a similar manner. Secondary centers

  6. Anatomical terms of bone - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Osteon - Wikipedia

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    Each osteon consists of concentric layers, or lamellae, of compact bone tissue that surround a central canal, the Haversian canal. The Haversian canal contains the bone's blood supplies. The boundary of an osteon is the cement line. Each Haversian canal is surrounded by varying number (5-20) of concentrically arranged lamellae of bone matrix.

  8. Human skeletal changes due to bipedalism - Wikipedia

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    Change in the shape of the hip may have led to the decrease in the degree of hip extension, an energy efficient adaptation. [1] [14] The ilium changed from a long and narrow shape to a short and broad one and the walls of the pelvis modernized to face laterally. These combined changes provide increased area for the gluteus muscles to attach ...

  9. Anatomical terminology - Wikipedia

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    The international morphological terminology refers to morphological sciences as a biological sciences' branch. In this field, the form and structure are examined as well as the changes or developments in the organism. It is descriptive and functional. Basically, it covers the gross anatomy and the microscopic (histology and cytology) of living ...