bio-geek amusement

[iridium]

a footnote to the vertebrate limb development chapter, in the NCBI online edition of S. Gilbert's Developmental Biology text:

*When referring to the hand, one has an orderly set of names to specify each digit (digitus pollicis, d. indicis, d. medius, d. annularis, and d. minimus, respectively, from thumb to little finger). No such nomenclature exists for the pedal digits, but the plan proposed by Phillips (1991) has much merit. The pedal digits, from hallux to small toe, would be named porcellus fori, p. domi, p. carnivorus, p. non voratus, and p. plorans domi, respectively.

Comments

[asarwate.livejournal.com]

ARRRRGH! My laughing at this is making it hard to write this goddamn paper! Darn you!

[coraline]

i love it!!!

[nacht_musik]

Risis, ploravi.

[mtgat]

O_O

That wins!

[tamnonlinear.livejournal.com]

*glee*

I like that a lot.

(also, I'm blaming you for the fact that I dreamed of making mac & cheese last night. This is unfair when I'm still recovering from a cold and shouldn't have diary until my system is back to normal. mmmmmm)

[kilroi.livejournal.com]

that's fantastic

[bk2w.livejournal.com]

That just ain't right. But wonderful.

[tshuma]

Hee! I am being utterly slain by livejournal today. This is fabulously silly.

[signifier.livejournal.com]

Thank you. That made my day.

[coendou.livejournal.com]

Is plorans latin for "wee wee wee"?

[clunymph.livejournal.com]

ha, i'm glad they simplify everything to numbers in the journal articles.

[ubersturm.livejournal.com]

that... that is pure awesome.
[disappears back into biochemistry texts & papers.]