- A
whorl is a type of
spiral or
circular pattern.
Other meanings of
whorl include:
Whorl (botany), the
attachment of sepals, petals, leaves, or branches...
- A hair
whorl is a
patch of hair
growing in a
circular direction around a
visible center point. Hair
whorls occur in most
hairy animals, on the body as...
- A
spindle whorl is a disc or
spherical object ****ed onto the
spindle to
increase and
maintain the
speed of the spin. Historically,
whorls have been made...
- of
spirally arranged clusters of the individuals' teeth,
called "tooth
whorls",
which in life were
embedded in the
lower jaw. As with most
extinct cartilaginous...
- stalk. A leaf
whorl consists of at
least three elements; a pair of
opposite leaves is not
called a
whorl. For
leaves to grow in
whorls is
fairly rare...
-
closer to the radius.
Whorls may also have sub-group
classifications including plain whorls,
accidental whorls,
double loop
whorls, pea****'s eye, composite...
- bottom, middle, or top,
commonly by a disc or
spherical object called a
whorl; many spindles, however, are
weighted simply by
thickening their shape towards...
-
keratopathy or
whorl keratopathy, is a
condition characterised by
corneal deposits at the
level of the
basal epithelium forming a
faint golden-brown
whorl pattern...
- biology, a
whorl is a
cluster of
cells or
tissue that
surrounds another and
wraps around another in an
expanding circular pattern.
Whorls occur at the...
-
cephalopod mollusk. In gastropods, the body
whorl, or last
whorl, is the most
recently formed and
largest whorl (or revolution) of a
spiral or
helical s****...
