1. WOODPECKERS AND HEAD INJURY
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PhilipR.A. May, Ada Hirschman, Paul Newman, and Joaquin M. Fuster
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Injury control ,Accident prevention ,Poison control ,Woodpecker ,Vibration ,Birds ,Physical medicine and rehabilitation ,Injury prevention ,medicine ,Animals ,Craniocerebral Trauma ,Humans ,Shock, Traumatic ,Brain Concussion ,biology ,Dissection ,Muscles ,Protective Devices ,Head injury ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,biology.organism_classification ,Head Protective Devices ,Medical emergency ,Head - Abstract
The woodpecker is an experiment in Nature, a model for the investigation of mechanisms of basic importance for head injury and its prevention. A preliminary anatomical study of the woodpecker's head suggests that it may be fruitful to explore impact protective systems which are radically different from those in common use.
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- 1976
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