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Anatomy

laryngeal prominence; Adam's Apple

unaided recall

Buddhism

Buddhist theory of the twelve-fold chain of causation, interdependent origination and co-dependent arising (San: pratītya-samutpāda); twelve causal links

keel (bird bone); carina

to file a lawsuit; to go to court; to go to trial

hippocampus

multiphoton excitation

Out-of-Africa theory (positing a recent African origin for modern humans)

Proverb

function follows form; the outside shapes the inside; belief comes from solemnity (i.e. from seeing an ornate temple)

Computing

association-initiator

standing out from the crowd; dominating; rising abruptly

towering high

Obsolete term

incurable (illness); bedridden (for the rest of one's days)

Obsolete term; Anatomy

vermiform process; vermiform appendix

Rare term

spinneret (of a spider)

waking up just before daybreak

Idiomatic expression; Rare term

to make a fortune; to build family wealth

Idiomatic expression; Rare term

to become the head of a family

Idiomatic expression; Obsolete term

to make a fortune

Proverb; Rare term; From Tao Te Ching, also as 九層の台も累土より起こる

many a little makes a mickle; every little helps; the tower of nine storeys (stories) rose from a small heap of earth