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Physiology: The Joints
The JointsAnatomy and
PhysiologyThe JointsTypes of JointsHinges, Pivots, and Saddles … Oh My!The Dancer's AlphabetDon't Wait. Rotate!
Now that you've learned all 206 bones, it's time to get a…If You Love Words, Consider Studying Linguistics
Linguistics may best be described as the rebar of the humanities—the supportive backbone that will rarely see the light of day. The value of linguistic scholarship to historians, translators, and…The Devil's Dictionary: T
by Ambrose Bierce SUT T, the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, was by the Greeks absurdly called tau. In the alphabet whence ours comes it had the form of the rude corkscrew of the period,…Brewer's: Alpheos and Arethusa
The Greek fable says that Alpheos, the river-god, fell in love with the nymph Arethusa, who fled from him in affright. The god pursued under the sea, but the nymph was changed into a…Brewer's: Mort-safe
A wrought-iron frame to prevent dead bodies from being exhumed by resurrectionists. (See Notes and Queries, March 14th, 1891, p. 210.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Oghams
The alphabet in use among the ancient Irish and some other Celtic nations prior to the ninth century. “The oghams seem to have been merely tree-runes. The Irish regarded the oghams as a…Brewer's: Morris Dance
brought to England in the reign of Edward III., when John of Gaunt returned from Spain. In the dance, bells were jingled, and staves or swords clashed. It was a military dance of the Moors…Anatomy and
Physiology: Hinges, Pivots, and Saddles … Oh My!
Hinges, Pivots, and Saddles … Oh My!Anatomy and
PhysiologyThe JointsTypes of JointsHinges, Pivots, and Saddles … Oh My!The Dancer's AlphabetDon't Wait. Rotate!
Despite all their similarities,…Brewer's: Alliteration
DR. BETHEL OF ETON. Didactic, dry, declamatory, dull, Big, burly Bethel bellows like a bull. Eton College. CARDINAL WOLSEY. Begot by butchers, but by bishops bred, How high his Honour…Anatomy and
Physiology: Oh, the Pressure!
Oh, the Pressure!Anatomy and
PhysiologyCardiovascular and Lymphatic CirculationVessels To and FroHere, There, EverywhereGoing Their Separate WaysOh, the Pressure!Drainage System
Blood pressure is…Trending
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