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  2. Morphology (biology) - Wikipedia

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    The etymology of the word "morphology" is from the Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ), meaning "form", and λόγος (lógos), meaning "word, study, research". [2] [3]While the concept of form in biology, opposed to function, dates back to Aristotle (see Aristotle's biology), the field of morphology was developed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1790) and independently by the German anatomist ...

  3. Anatomical terminology - Wikipedia

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    The gross anatomy of a muscle is the most important indicator of its role in the body. One particularly important aspect of gross anatomy of muscles is pennation or lack thereof. In most muscles, all the fibers are oriented in the same direction, running in a line from the origin to the insertion.

  4. Sesotho grammar - Wikipedia

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    people ba•lelapa of•family la•hae of•his ba•a•mo•ahlola they•judge•him Batho ba•lelapa la•hae ba•a•mo•ahlola people of•family of•his they•judge•him 'His family members judge him' Certain observations about the Sesotho word (and those of many other Bantu languages in general) may be made: Each word has one part of speech, which can usually be determined from ...

  5. Semitic root - Wikipedia

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    The roots of verbs and most nouns in the Semitic languages are characterized as a sequence of consonants or "radicals" (hence the term consonantal root).Such abstract consonantal roots are used in the formation of actual words by adding the vowels and non-root consonants (or "transfixes") which go with a particular morphological category around the root consonants, in an appropriate way ...

  6. Glossary of spider terms - Wikipedia

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    Some abbreviations commonly found in descriptions of spider anatomy include: ALE: anterior lateral eyes [1] → eyes; ALS: anterior lateral spinnerets → spinneret; AME: anterior median eyes [1] → eyes; DTA: dorsal tegular apophysis, apophysis on the back of the tegulum; DTiA: dorsal tibial apophysis, apophysis on the back of a tibia

  7. List of anatomy mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Sotho verbs - Wikipedia

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    Some verbs ending in a -tsa, which is an alveolarization of an original -la, revert the alveolarization, ending in -disa-sebetsa work ⇒ -sebedisa use; Monosyllabic e-stems suffix -esa and i-stems suffix -isa-nwa drink ⇒ -nwesa cause to drink; Verbs ending in -nya and disyllabic verbs ending in -na contract and cause nasalization resulting ...

  9. Lemma (morphology) - Wikipedia

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    In morphology and lexicography, a lemma (pl.: lemmas or lemmata) is the canonical form, [1] dictionary form, or citation form of a set of word forms. [2] In English, for example, break, breaks, broke, broken and breaking are forms of the same lexeme, with break as the lemma by which they are indexed.