The dictionary definition of OV at Wiktionary (also ㍵) says:

• (ōbui)

1. unit of basal body temperature, 0 being 35.5 °C and 50 being 38 °C, used for fertility awareness

However Wiktionary has no references. I cannot find references elsewhere. Maybe they exist but searching for "OV", especially when including "ovulation" gives many false positives. Can you find a reference for the existence and meaning of this unit, preferably in a language I can understand, such as English or Spanish? I guess most references are in Japanese, that I don't understand. -- Error (talk) 10:44, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"*Women's thermometers use the "OV value" so that slight changes in body temperature can be read."

"This is a value that divides the range of 35.5 to 38.0°C into 50 equal parts."

Original source: [1]

Translated source:[2] OptoFidelty (talk) 01:06, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It was rejected as promotional material. --Error (talk) 23:46, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I learned of the "hillocks of Hiss" from the wikipedia article on Tubercle Tubercle#Ears

From looking at other sources, I see they're also spelt "hillocks of his" -- What I cannot find out, and what I'm asking y'all is, *why* they are called 'Hiss/His' are they named for a person?140.147.160.225 (talk) 12:02, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Presumably named for Wilhelm His Sr. or Wilhelm His Jr.. --Amble (talk) 16:47, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In a book on the pathophysiology of orbital diseases I found this sentence:^[3]

In 1868, Hiss demonstrated that shortly after gastrulation, a different type of cell was formed between the ectoderm and the paraxial mesoderm on both sides of the neural tube.⁹

I bet this is the same His(s) as that of the hillocks. Given their bios, this would then be His Sr. The reference9 is to the textbook Human Embryology, for which the restrictive snippet view fails to reveal more, but the 1868 publication is almost certainly Untersuchungen über die erste Anlage des Wirbelthierleibes.  --Lambiam 17:23, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

thanks so much Lambiam and Amble! -- any chance you could add a footnote or ref to the Tubercle article so future folks won't be as stymied as I was? 140.147.160.225 (talk) 12:04, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I found this further confirmation:

The most important theory arose in 1855 when Wilhelm His named six cartilaginous hillocks as the original auricular structures.

Source: Jack Davis (1997). Otoplasty. Springer, p. 24.ISBN 978-1-4612-7484-1.

You should be able to add a footnote (with ref) to the Tubercle article yourself.  --Lambiam 14:36, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Now done, also added to the His Sr article. Alansplodge (talk) 13:24, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]