plastination

technique used in anatomy to preserve body or body parts
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plastination

Summary

plastination ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (399 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • plastination is credited with the discovery of Gunther von Hagens[2].
  • plastination's image is recorded as Laminitis plastinate hc biovision.jpg[3].
  • plastination's GND ID is recorded as 7648897-4[4].
  • plastination's subclass of is recorded as preservation[5].
  • plastination's Commons category is recorded as Plastination[6].
  • plastination's field of this occupation is recorded as anatomical pathology[7].
  • plastination's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D000077780[8].
  • plastination's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1977-00-00T00:00:00Z[9].
  • plastination's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01xdkb[10].
  • plastination's MeSH tree code is recorded as E02.792.400[11].
  • plastination's MeSH tree code is recorded as E05.760.400[12].
  • plastination's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Anatomical preservation[13].
  • plastination's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300380218[14].
  • plastination's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000237059[15].
  • plastination's UMLS CUI is recorded as C4704794[16].
  • plastination's Quora topic ID is recorded as Plastination[17].
  • plastination's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 51257634[18].
  • plastination's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 13559517-n[19].
  • plastination's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/5916daf0-8438-480a-989f-c237cee6c23b[20].

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Works and Contributions

plastination is credited with the discovery of Gunther von Hagens[2].

Why It Matters

plastination ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (399 views/month).[1] plastination has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] plastination is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  15. [16] . UMLS 2023. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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