Vertex - Biology and Anatomy

Biology and Anatomy

  • Vertex (anatomy), the uppermost surface of the head of an arthropod or vertebrate
  • Vertex (urinary bladder), alternative name of the apex of urinary bladder
  • Vertex presentation, head-first birth of a baby

Read more about this topic:  Vertex

Famous quotes containing the words biology and, biology and/or anatomy:

    “The “control of nature” is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.”
    —Rachel Carson (1907–1964)

    “Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    “Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)