joint

Joint

This article is about a joint in zootomical anatomy . For other meanings of t... word "joint", see Joint (disambiguation) . A joint is the location at which two bones make contact. Structurally, the joints are classified as: f...

Human Genome Project

...eed to pool their data. On April 14 , 2003 , a joint press release announced that the project had been successfully completed, with 99% of the genome sequenced with 99.99% accuracy. Although the working draft was announced in June 2000, it was not until February 2001 that Celera and the HGP scientis...

Charles Darwin

... in the hands of Lyell and Hooker, who agreed on a joint presentation at the Linnean Society on 1 July of On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection . The initial announcement of the theory gained little immediate at...

Blood

...ommonly results in hemarthrosis , or bleeding into joint spaces, which can be crippling. Leukaemia (more often called leukemia) is a group of cancers of the blood-forming tissues. Major blood loss, whether traumatic or not (e.g. during surgery), as well as certain blood diseases like anemia and ...

Bone

...egion where adjacent bones contact each other - a joint Articular process a projection that contact...projection near to a condyle but not part of the joint Line , Ridge a long, thin projection, often with a rough surface Crest a prominent ridg...