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Cheese

* List of Swiss cheeses (from
Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
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Swiss-type cheeses Swiss-type cheeses, also known as Alpine cheeses, are a group of hard or semi-hard cheeses with a distinct character, whose origins lie in the Alps of Europe, although they are now eaten and imitated in most cheesemaking parts of the world. Their ...
or Alpine cheeses, a class of cooked pressed cheeses now made in many countries * Swiss cheese (North America), any of several related varieties of cheese that resemble Emmentaler


Biology

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Swiss cheese cartilage dysplasia Kniest dysplasia is a rare form of dwarfism caused by a mutation in the '' COL2A1'' gene on chromosome 12. The ''COL2A1'' gene is responsible for producing type II collagen. The mutation of ''COL2A1'' gene leads to abnormal skeletal growth and pr ...
or Kniest dysplasia, a form of dwarfism *
Swiss cheese plant (disambiguation) Swiss cheese plant may refer to: * ''Monstera deliciosa ''Monstera deliciosa'', the Swiss cheese plant or split-leaf philodendron is a species of flowering plant native to tropical forests of southern Mexico, south to Panama. It has been introd ...


Mathematics and physics

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Swiss cheese (mathematics) In mathematics, a Swiss cheese is a compact subset of the complex plane obtained by removing from a closed disc some countable union of open discs, usually with some restriction on the centres and radii of the removed discs. Traditionally the d ...
, subset of the complex plane with circular holes *
Swiss cheese features Swiss cheese features (SCFs) are curious pits in the south polar ice cap of Mars ( Mare Australe quadrangle) named from their similarity to the holes in Swiss cheese. They were first seen in 2000 using Mars Orbiter Camera imagery. Description ...
, pits in the south polar ice cap of Mars *
Swiss cheese model The Swiss cheese model of accident causation is a model used in risk analysis and risk management, including aviation safety, engineering, healthcare, emergency service organizations, and as the principle behind layered security, as used in c ...
, of accident causation, used in risk analysis and risk management


See also

* Swiss Cheese Union, Swiss marketing body, up to 1999 {{disambig