The portion of the Sonora Desert which lies in the Southwestern United States is the most populated area within the region. Six of the top ten major population centers of the region are found within its borders: Phoenix, Tucson, Mesa, Chandler, Glendale, and Scottsdale, all in Arizona.
Insertion. Insertion. 1. (Science: anatomy) The place of attachment, as of a muscle to the bone which it moves. 2. (Science: genetics) a rare nonreciprocal translocation involving three breaks in which a segment is removed from one chromosome and then inserted into a broken region of a nonhomologous chromosome.
anatomy (n.) late 14c., study or knowledge of the structure and function of the human body (learned by dissection); c. 1400, anatomical structure, from Old French anatomie and directly from Late Latin anatomia, from late Greek anatomia for classical anatome dissection, literally a cutting up, from ana up (see ana-) + temnein to cut (from PIE root *tem-to cut).