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| Wallerian degeneration Watt Weight Whorls Winging (scapular) Wolff’s law Work |
| Degeneration of a nerve’s axon that has been severed from the body of the nerve Power Measure of the force of gravity acting on an object; mass times the acceleration due to gravity; expressed as newtons in SI Swirl markings in the skin. Fingerprints are images formed by the whorls on the fingertips The inferior angle of the scapula’s lifting away from the thorax A tissue adapts to the level of stress imposed on it; the level of adaptation in a tissue reflects the level of typical loading The product of force exerted on an object times the displacement of the object at the point of application of the force along the line of action of the force; expressed as units of force times units of length or as joules in SI; a scalar quantity |