Swiss cheese may refer to:

Cheese

List of Swiss cheeses This is a list of the varieties of traditional cheeses made in Switzerland. Switzerland produces over 475 varieties of cheese, a milk-based food produced in a large range of flavors, textures, and forms. Cow's milk is used in about 99 percent of ...

(from Switzerland) *

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) Swiss cheese is any variety of cheese that resembles Emmental cheese, a yellow, medium-hard cheese that originated in the area around Emmental, Switzerland. It is classified as a Swiss-type or Alpine cheese. Some types of Swiss cheese have a d ...

, any of several related varieties of cheese that resemble Emmentaler

Biology

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 pro ...

or Kniest dysplasia, a form of dwarfism *

Swiss cheese plant (disambiguation) Swiss cheese plant may refer to: * ''Monstera deliciosa'', a species of flowering plant native to tropical forests of southern Mexico, south to Panama * ''Monstera adansonii ''Monstera adansonii'', the Adanson's monstera, Swiss cheese plant, o ...

Mathematics and physics

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 ...

, 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 co ...

, of accident causation, used in risk analysis and risk management

Cheese

Biology

Mathematics and physics

See also