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Situs solitus (Latin: "usual site") is the medical term referring to the normal position of thoracic and abdominal organs. Anatomically, this means that the heart is on the left with the pulmonary atrium on the right and the systemic atrium on the left along with the cardiac apex. Right-sided organs are the liver, the gall bladder and a ...
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Situs orbis terre vel regionum is an anonymous Latin geographical treatise written sometime between the late 7th and early 9th centuries. [1] It was composed either in Septimania or the Iberian Peninsula, both part of the Visigothic Kingdom down to 711. [2] It is known from a single manuscript, now in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France ...
Situs (law), a legal term meaning "site" where a law applies. In biology, situs refers to the disposition of organs in organisms with left-right asymmetry. Situs solitus, the normal position of organs. Situs inversus, the inverted disposition of organs. Situs ambiguus (heterotaxia), comprises mixed cases where only some organs are inverted.
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Teuku Jacob (6 December 1929 – 17 October 2007) was an Indonesian paleoanthropologist. As a student of Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald in the 1950s, Jacob claimed to have discovered and studied numerous specimens of Homo erectus. He came to international prominence as a vocal critic of scientists who believed remains discovered in ...
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Situs (law) In law, the situs (pronounced / ˈsaɪtəs /) ( Latin for position or site) of property is where the property is treated as being located for legal purposes. This may be important when determining which laws apply to the property, since the situs of an object determines the lex situs, that is, the law applicable in the jurisdiction ...