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The worm-like chain (WLC) model in polymer physics is used to describe the behavior of polymers that are semi-flexible: fairly stiff with successive segments...

Worms are many different distantly related bilateral animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body, no limbs, and usually no eyes. Worms...

A computer worm is a standalone malware computer program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers. It often uses a computer network...

McEntire), the group fights for survival against giant, prehistoric, worm-like monsters hungry for human flesh. Released by Universal Pictures, the film...

Frank Herbert, first introduced in Dune (1965). Sandworms are colossal, worm-like creatures that live on the desert planet Arrakis. Their larvae produce...

Twisty Worms, Wiggle Worms, or Worm on a String) are small, worm-like toys with eyes, a furry body, and a hidden string used to imitate a live worm, sometimes...

Look up tube worm in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A tubeworm is any worm-like sessile invertebrate that anchors its tail to an underwater surface and...

revealed worm-like structures within a dissected molar. While not worms or caused by worms, these structures may have given rise to the tooth worm belief...

onyches, "claws"; and φέρειν, pherein, "to carry"), commonly known as velvet worms (due to their velvety texture and somewhat wormlike appearance) or more...

historically used to describe parasitic worms; in modern medical terminology, it is used to suggest the worm-like appearance of the expressed material....

enterprise. The term derives from the Latin vermis (worm), and was originally used for the worm-like larvae of certain insects, many of which infest foodstuffs...

worm-like form. Swiftly gaining favor in European markets, gummy worms later began to be sold in the United States. Initially, Haribo's gummy worms were...

series of well-developed tergites (dorsal exoskeleton) having three lobes like a trilobite, with dorsal surfaces covered by many tubercles. The head is...

Coming of the White Worm" (1941). Aphoom-Zhah is the progeny of Cthugha and is worshipped as the Lord of the Pole because he dwells, like Ithaqua, above the...

cylindrical, slender, naked, and superficially vermiform (worm-shaped). In spite of their slender, worm-like forms, shipworms possess the characteristic morphology...

legless lizard native to western Eurasia. It is also called a deaf adder, slow worm, blindworm, or regionally, a long-cripple and hazelworm. The "blind" in blindworm...

(/sɪˈsɪliən/; New Latin for 'blind ones') are a group of limbless, vermiform (worm-shaped) or serpentine (snake-shaped) amphibians with small or sometimes nonexistent...

Stoor worm, of Orcadian folklore. Minhocão (legendary creature) - an earthworm or fish-like creature of Brazilian folklore The Lair of the White Worm is...

models for rubber elasticity are the freely-jointed chain model and the worm-like chain model. The freely joined chain, also called an ideal chain, follows...

three separate groups of "arthropods" evolved separately from common worm-like ancestors: the chelicerates, including spiders and scorpions; the crustaceans;...