Connected to the talus at the subtalar joint, the calcaneus, the largest bone of the foot, is cushioned inferiorly by a layer of fat.

The males possess a large baculum ( penis bone ), up to in length, the largest of any land mammal, both in absolute size and relative to body size.

The femur is the largest bone in the human body.

The nerve is the largest unprotected nerve in the human body ( meaning unprotected by muscle or bone ), so injury is common.

It is the second largest bone next to the femur.

Their dentary was the largest bone in their lower jaw, as other smaller bones moved into the ears.

It is the largest sesamoid bone in the human body.

The scaphoid bone is the largest bone of the proximal row of wrist bones, its long axis being from above downward, lateralward, and forward.

In the human hand, the capitate bone is the largest of the carpal bones, and occupies the center of the wrist.

In humans, the calcaneus is the largest of the tarsal bones and the largest bone of the foot.

In 2007 a long fossilized penis bone from an extinct species of walrus, believed by the seller to be the largest in existence, was sold for $ 8, 000.

In the book based on the series, it was claimed that several large bone fragments from the Santana Formation of Brazil possibly indicate that Ornithocheirus may have had a wingspan reaching almost 12 metres and a weight of a hundred kilogrammes, making it one of the largest known pterosaurs.

In humans the largest bone in the tarsus is the calcaneus, which is the weight-bearing bone within the heel of the foot.

Ever since the fall of communism, the question of vetting ( lustracja ) has been a bone of contention between two political camps that both emerged from the former anti-communist opposition: The liberal wing-prominently represented by Adam Michnik and his Gazeta Wyborcza, the country's largest daily-call for a comprehensive reconciliation between former operatives and opponents of the People's Republic, by symbolically making a final stroke, or " thick line " ( gruba kreska ) separating the former, communist era from the present without seeking revenge.

The largest intact sections of the theatre are found in the Palazzo della Cancelleria, which used much of the bone colored travertine for its exterior from the theatre.

Dunkleosteus ( from " Dunkle " + osteus Greek language | Greek: bone ) is a genus of prehistoric fish, one of the largest arthrodire placoderms ever to have lived, existing during the Late Devonian period, about 380-360 million years ago.

* ( 4 ) the occipital, the largest of the four, which is confined to the occipital bone, and opens either externally into the occipital vein, or internally into the transverse sinus or into the confluence of the sinuses ( torcular Herophili ).

I speak of `` the largest possible measure '' because any person who supposes that these conditions can be universally and perfectly achieved -- ever -- reckons without the inherent imperfectability of himself and his fellow human beings, and is therefore a dangerous man to have around.

In addition, mixed race ( European and African ) people amount to about 2 %, with a small ( 1 %) population of whites, mainly ethnically Portuguese ( as a former overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, the Portuguese make up currently the largest non-African population, with certainly more than 100, 000, a number that has been constantly increasing from the 2000s, because of Angola's growing demand for qualified human resources.

In the form of proteins, amino acids comprise the second largest component other than water of human muscles, cells and other tissues.

In a typical human the cerebral cortex ( the largest part ) is estimated to contain 15 – 33 billion neurons, each connected by synapses to several thousand other neurons.

Its permanent collection, numbering some eight million works, is amongst the largest and most comprehensive in existence and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.

For instance, the largest human chromosome, chromosome number 1, is approximately 220 million base pairs long.

These largest lakes resemble the others in shape, which collectively reminded early map-makers of human fingers.

The history of Kazakhstan describes the human past in the Eurasia's largest segment of the steppe belt that was the home and crossroads for numerous human groups starting with extinct Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus 1 mln – 800, 000 in the Karatau Mountains, Caspian and Balkhash areas ; Neanderthals 140 – 40 thousand years ago in the Karatau Mountains and Central Kazakhstan, and the arrival of the modern Homo Sapiens 40 – 12 thousand years ago in the Southern, Central, and Eastern Kazakhstan.

The ovum is one of the largest cells in the human body, typically visible to the naked eye without the aid of a microscope or other magnification device.

Operation Barbarossa was the largest military operation in human history in both manpower and casualties.

In 2009, nitrous oxide ( N < sub > 2 </ sub > O ) was the largest ozone-depleting substance emitted through human activities.

On 22 June 1941, Nazi Germany broke the non-aggression treaty and invaded the Soviet Union with the largest and most powerful invasion force in human history, opening the largest theater of World War II.

Hence, the question of which is the largest peninsula in Europe is a debatable one, depending on arbitrary human definitions of where the peninsulas begin — and on which century one chooses to consider: sometimes, Scandinavia as a peninsula has not existed.

Therefore, approximately 10 % of genes in the genome code for transcription factors, which makes this family the single largest family of human proteins.

It is thought to be the largest famine in human history.

* On February 15, 2003 anti-war protests break out around the world in opposition to the U. S. Invasion of Iraq, in what the Guinness Book of World Records called the largest anti-war rally in human history.

In the Old Kingdom of Egypt, the Egyptian pyramids were constructed and would remain the tallest and largest human constructions for thousands of years.

* 400 hectares — Great Wall of China, largest human structure.

The IDA is the single largest provider of funds to economic and human development projects in the world's poorest nations.

In the human body, the heart is usually situated in the middle of the thorax with the largest part of the heart slightly offset to the left, although sometimes it is on the right ( see dextrocardia ), underneath the sternum.

The hippopotamus is one of the largest quadrupeds and despite its stocky shape and short legs, it can easily outrun a human.

In 1979, during the early stages of Thompson's term and immediately in the aftermath of the largest vote for a gubernatorial candidate in the state's history, he called for the human rights reorganization.

The aorta (; from Greek ἀορτή-aortē, from ἀείρω-aeirō " I lift, raise ") is the largest artery in the body, originating from the left ventricle of the heart and extending down to the abdomen, where it bifurcates into two smaller arteries ( the common iliacs ).

This viewpoint later emerged and crystallized with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the largest remaining body today.

The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea, perhaps the largest body of brackish water in the world ( other possibilities include the Black Sea, Hudson Bay and the Caspian Sea ).

Founded first as the Bursa University then renamed to Uludağ University in 1982, the university has a student body of 47, 000, one of the largest in Turkey.

In general, smaller animals tend to have larger brains, measured as a fraction of body size: the animal with the largest brain-size-to-body-size ratio is the hummingbird.

It should also be noted that the second largest of the three predecessor bodies of the ELCA, the American Lutheran Church, was a congregationalist body, with national and synod presidents before they were re-titled as bishops ( borrowing from the Lutheran churches in Germany ) in the 1980s.

Today the Christadelphian body remains divided into " fellowships " ( of which in the UK it is estimated that there are 23 ), the largest being the Central fellowship, named after the now-defunct Birmingham Central ecclesia, once its largest and most influential ecclesia.

Cape Cod's largest inland body of water, Long Pond, lies on the Brewster border as well as several other smaller bodies of water.

Ysyk-Köl is the second largest body of water in Central Asia, after the Aral Sea, but the saline lake has been shrinking steadily, and its mineral content has been rising gradually.

Studies conducted in 2010 at the University of Derby by Karim Vahed, Darren Parker and James Gilbert found that the Tuberous Bushcricket ( Platycleis affinis ) has the largest testes in proportion to body mass of any animal recorded.

The largest male asserts his dominance and the smaller males show their submission by use of body language and rumbling hisses.

At around the size of a domestic chicken, kiwi are by far the smallest living ratites and lay the largest egg in relation to their body size of any species of bird in the world.

The Louisiana Academy of Medical Psychology ( LAMP ), currently the largest organization of psychologists with prescriptive authority in the world and the only organization representing practitioners of medical psychology in Louisiana as defined by Louisiana statute within any jurisdiction in the United States, no longer recognizes the Academy of Medical Psychology as an adequate certifying body for its practitioners, and its members have resigned from the Academy of Medical Psychology en masse.

As of 2009, the CEO for the company is Brian France, grandson of Bill France, Sr. NASCAR is the largest sanctioning body of stock car racing in the United States.

Geographical features include Great Bear Lake, the largest lake entirely within Canada, and Great Slave Lake, the deepest body of water in Canada at, as well as the Mackenzie River and the canyons of the Nahanni National Park Reserve, a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The next largest body in a similar 2: 3 resonance with Neptune, called a plutino, is the candidate dwarf planet Orcus.

Beth Medrash Govoha, the Haredi yeshiva in Lakewood, New Jersey is the largest Talmudic academy in the United States, with a student body of over 5, 000 students.

The Emperor Penguin ( the largest penguin ) has the largest body mass of all penguins, which further reduces relative surface area and heat loss.

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In a review of pterosaur size estimates published in 2010, researchers Mark Witton and Mike Habib demonstrated that the latter, largest estimates are almost certainly incorrect given the total volume of a Pteranodon body, and could only be correct if the animal " was principally aluminium.

Garros's trip is the largest body of water crossed prior to WW1 and prior to the post-war 1919 crossing of the Atlantic.