The bony plates on the armadillos' back serves as protective armour from predators. |
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The external auditory meatus runs as a bony tube to the side of the tympanohyal we cannot see on the left-hand picture. |
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Sturgeon species are noted by a spindle-shaped body with five rows of bony scutes and a long snout with sensory barbels. |
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When using handheld massagers like this, stay away from bony areas, especially around your spine, to avoid bruising. |
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These advances culminated in the modern bony fish, or teleosts, which show a tremendous diversity of mouth parts and feeding specializations. |
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A whole-body bone scan showed no evidence of bony metastases, and a mammogram showed no evidence of malignancy. |
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Finally, ancestral archosaurs had a double row of bony plates running along the backbone. |
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Because of the bony articulation between the medial malleolus and the talus, medial ankle sprains are less common than lateral sprains. |
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Injuries classified as zone II are located distal to the lunula of the nail bed and are complicated by the bony exposure of the distal phalanx. |
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Body protected by armour of bony plates, male carries fertilised eggs until they hatch into miniature adults. |
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The pirarucu's sheer size and bony armor provide defenses against predators. |
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Freshwater clams first appear along with an increase in gastropod, bony fish, and shark diversity. |
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The Galeaspida are a strange group of armored fishes possessing a massive, flattened, one-piece bony shield. |
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The spinal column is composed of seven cervical vertebrae, twelve thoracic vertebrae, five lumbar vertebrae, the bony sacrum, and the coccyx. |
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The longest bony fish in the sea, it grows up to nine metres long with a bright red crest that runs the entire length of its body. |
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The bony surfaces are covered with cartilage and separated by a small disk, which prevents them from rubbing against each other. |
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Dr Tyler says there is some agreement that the common ancestor was a bony fish. |
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Unlike with bony fish, only a handful of lamprey fossils have ever been found, because cartilage usually decays too fast to become fossilized. |
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Reptiles like alligators, snakes and lizards as well as marine animals like seals, whales, sharks and bony fish are also used as well. |
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Leafy seadragons are bony fish in the family Syngnathidae which includes seahorses and pipefishes. |
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By the late Devonian, 360 million years ago, early cartilaginous fish and bony fish were diversifying. |
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Well-developed phylogenies for many bony fish taxa are available for these comparative studies. |
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The oldest fossils of bony fish all come from marine waters, where fish presumably didn't have to worry too much about running low on oxygen. |
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It is the heaviest bony fish swimming anywhere in the world and can weigh up to 2000 kgs. |
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Doctor Conrad wrapped his arms around the boy's bony body and held him as close as he would his own son. |
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She was bony and it was plain to see that she hadn't been eating regularly. |
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Rags clung to a frail and bony body, one that did not look like it'd had any nourishment for quite some time. |
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The girl had a slim, almost bony body that was even more obvious under the tight black trousers and tops. |
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For I wasn't even really there, just a bit of my mind was left in my bony body. |
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Patten, a tall, bony man with a balding dome of a forehead, makes his living loaning money to ranchers. |
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How else could I have hurt my knee if not from my impact against that bony body of yours? |
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He was a bony child of twelve, wearing nothing but baggy trousers tied with rope and the bits on his wrists. |
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One by one, shadowy, transparent figures of skinny, bony people appeared all around. |
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In the crowded wards of African hospitals, coughs and bony bodies tell the story of a deadly return. |
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The bony woman waved one gangly arm at another set of double doors that Sam hadn't noticed before. |
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Dodd and Benton looked to the rear at the speaker, a small, bony man with a grizzled face that spoke of hard, long days in the saddle. |
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Alewives have not seriously been exploited as a fishery in the Great Lakes since these are small and too bony to eat. |
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The head contains bony plates with short spines at the tip of the snout and anterior to the eye. |
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A number of types of armor have been found with it, indicating that primitive as well as advanced titanosaurs possessed bony plates in the skin. |
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The water is strained through a series of bony plates that trap the small creatures making up the baleen whale's main diet. |
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Like all placoderms, they lacked teeth, instead using the sharpened edges of a bony plate as a biting surface. |
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The dome of the skull, for example, is made of bony plates, which must be immovable to protect the brain. |
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The bony plates are absorbed within a few weeks after the fish settle to the bottom. |
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Articular cartilage is white, glossy, and smooth tissue without blood vessels or nerves, and it protects the bony understructure from friction. |
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All these are headquartered at the inside part of the temporal lobe of the brain behind the skull's bony archway joining your ear to your eye. |
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Unlike many fish, which have bony skeletons, shark skeletons are made entirely of cartilage, which grows throughout the animal's life. |
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The family also boasts the fastest-swimming fishes in the world, and bluefin tunas are probably the largest of all bony fishes. |
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Unlike the turbot the upper body surface is covered with small scales, not the bony tubercles of the larger species. |
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The largest bony fish in the world, the molas can grow to be over 10 feet long and weigh up to 5,000 pounds. |
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She has no symptoms, specifically no cough, sputum, hemoptysis, weight loss, sweats, fevers, or bony pains. |
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The sheath of thin bony plates extends beyond the head to form spines dorsally and ventrally. |
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For example, when a bony joint in the spine, called a vertebra, is out of place, it is called a vertebral subluxation. |
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They feed on small bony fishes, snails, worms, shrimps, clams, abalone, and crabs. |
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The dress she's wearing only just covers her thin and bony frame, and her spindly legs poke out above long white lumpy kneesocks. |
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The flesh of his face looked as if it had shrivelled up, then been stretched and stretched to barely cover his bony features. |
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It had already metastasized to his spinal column and his bony pelvis, femurs, skull, and tibia. |
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Graham, in a Jacky Howe flannel, was sitting hunched with his bony legs drawn up under his chin. |
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A bony layer of cementum covers the outside of the root, under the gum line, and holds the tooth in place within the jawbone. |
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A bunion is an abnormal, bony bump that forms on the joint at the base of your big toe. |
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The defect occurs in the vertebral column with tissue protrusion through a bony cleft. |
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Each specimen was radiographed for possible bony abnormalities and examined for any ligament deficiencies. |
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He was a slight man with keen eyes, dark hair, a heavy jowl and bony fingers. |
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The top of the head is always covered by a shield of keratin-covered scutes, and the tail is covered by bony rings. |
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I protect the cord with three layers of sheathing, a fluid bath to take up shock, plus a bony housing. |
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It is covered by a layer of tiny, bony tubercles, similar to that of sharkskin in appearance and feel. |
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Their skin is covered with non-overlapping scales composed of the protein keratin and often studded with bony plates called scutes. |
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In Brachycephalus, there is a dermal bony shield that ossifies dorsal to the vertebrae. |
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This shark feeds primarily on bony fishes such as parrot, trigger, squirrel, surgeon, damsel and goat fishes as well as eels. |
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Steamed fish or bony kippers don't feature much in today's childhood diets. |
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Also common is torus palatinus, a slow growing, asymptomatic, benign bony lump in the midline of the palate. |
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Marine bony fish and toothed whales live in a hyperosmotic medium, and much of the potential prey is hyperosmotic. |
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When he stood up his natty blue and white striped pants hung on his bony legs as he leaned on his cane. |
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The molecular mechanisms coordinating the development of the membranous and bony labyrinths are largely unknown. |
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These fusions divide the bony labyrinth into two chambers called scala vestibuli and scala tympani. |
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Within each semicircular canal of the bony labyrinth is a semicircular canal of the membranous labyrinth. |
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Sure enough, lampreys are simple vertebrates lacking jaws, teeth and a bony skeleton, whereas sharks are much more complex animals. |
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Garnett put his slouch hat on the green grass that substituted for her floor, sat a little straighter, and laced his bony fingers. |
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Joint pain and toothache may both be due to increased pressure within a bony canal. |
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Similar studies with mice have been valuable, and a bony fish model can provide a good source of variation for comparison. |
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They say it is interesting that the suction-feeding mechanism evolved independently in the frogs and larval bony fish. |
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Titan triggerfish are armed with powerful jaws and teeth suitable for chewing bony corals divers should steer clear of them! |
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If bony tissue is not palpable, the application of a ligature around the pedicle allows the digit to fall off. |
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A behemoth caught off the coast of Japan in 1996 may set the record as the world's heaviest bony fish. |
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These living fossils are scavengers which share physical characteristics common to both sharks and true bony fish. |
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The man's skin was almost as parchment-like as Lord Scion's was, and an aquiline nose jutted out from the man's bony cheeks. |
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While in radiology, a computed tomographic scan-guided needle biopsy of a tumor nodule in the bony pelvis was conducted. |
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Those produced by the hypochordal lobe of the caudal fin of selachians and early bony fishes have been studied in detail. |
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The clicks are beamed forward, with the oily melon serving as an acoustic lens and the bony forehead as a reflector. |
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The mild electrical impulses harm neither sharks nor bony fish, but the spasms in their noses become intolerable forcing sharks away from the area. |
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And lest we think models are just bony arms and pretty faces, they frequently assure us that they are really, truly intelligent. |
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It reminded him of the man who had a poor old lean, bony, spavined horse, with swelled legs. |
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Some were explicit, with messages written on them like that bony girl in the T-shirt. |
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He may not be gregarious but Petraeus wields a bony and ascetic charm which he combines with practical intelligence. |
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But Nicole claims that she's always been a tiny bony little waif, and during season one of The Simple Life, she was going through a rare chubby period. |
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The horns of cows and sheep grow over a bony core that resembles the horn in shape, so anything with a slightly twisted cone of rough-surfaced bone is unlikely to be human. |
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These fish do not have gills or opercula like most bony fishes. |
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Although a small number of bony fishes have brains of the same relative size as those in agnathans, most bony fishes have considerably larger brains for the same body size. |
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We redetermine the role of symptoms and serum concentrations in detecting bony metastases in lung cancer and reassess the accuracy of bone scans for screening. |
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The uneven topography alternated between blocks of ice mesas, deep ice craters, bony ice ridges, and rolling ice dunes glowing an otherworldly sapphire-blue. |
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Removal of an ankylosed tooth may be difficult and traumatic leading to esthetic bony ridge deformities and optimal prosthetic treatment interferences. |
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Two mammoth horns curved out from the head stretching up along the sides of a colossal diadem of brilliant brass encircling the bony ridged cranium of the beast. |
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Dark marks ringed the boy's bony wrist, livid against pale flesh. |
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A long, bony finger came crooking through, and turned the window handle. |
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Although the head and thorax were usually armored with dermal bone, the rest of the body was quite vulnerable, covered with small bony scales or lacking even that. |
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But in coelacanths, lungfishes and some primitive sharks, the transformation of notochord into a segmented bony vertebral column does not take place. |
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Radiographic examination revealed opacities consistent with bony structure in the auricles of the ears, with the right more prominent than the left. |
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There was no tenderness on bony palpation over the paranasal sinuses. |
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The spinal cord, which runs from the brain down through the bony spinal column, contains thread-like nerves that branch off to every part of the body. |
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I go back to catching the tiddlers, wondering how many of them might make breakfast, and if they might not be just a little small and bony to be palatable. |
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This gland, also termed the hypophysis cerebri, lies in a bony cavity, the sella turcica, so called because it was thought to resemble a Turkish saddle. |
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In a sheep semilunar bone model, we investigated whether collapse in the intercalar bones lacking bony support could be prevented by the injection of acrylic bone cement. |
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A longitudinal ridge of the bony palate, torus palatinus, may be present in the region of the median palatine suture and extends laterally from it. |
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Leana turned her head to see the bony woman standing near them. |
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The bulla was opened to expose the cochlea, the bony capsule was removed, and the apical turn of the organ of Corti was dissected from the modiolus. |
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The earth by the Kramer monument burst asunder, and a bony, decomposing arm, covered with tatters of moldy, worm-eaten cloth, reached out of the ground. |
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The main body of the element comprises a longitudinal bony buttress that supports a very slight sigmoid row containing a minimum of five shallow tooth sockets. |
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Another theory proposed that absence of the bony plate overlying the carotid adjacent to the tympanic cavity may enable expansion of the vessel into the middle ear. |
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Sound waves reaching the tympanic membrane will initiate vibrations that are transmitted through the bony ossicles of the middle ear to the oval window. |
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The oarfish is the largest living bony fish, reaching up to 35 feet in length. |
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Neither of these jawless fish has a bony skeleton, but most of the fossil groups listed on the cladogram had a fairly extensive covering of bony plates. |
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As early vertebrates grew larger and developed bony scales or plates between their tissues and the water, they developed gills for taking up oxygen from the water. |
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However, its skull also shows the characteristic osteoderms, or bony plates in the skin, that distinguish crocodiles from their dinosaur relatives. |
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Where other fish have scales, the sturgeon has an armour of bony plates with a few lines of these protruding scutes running down the length of the fish. |
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What's more, they were only scattered bony scales and plates. |
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Dermal bone consists of bony structures that develop in the skin. |
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Maybe the Stegosaur loaned the seahorse its bony plate of armour. |
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The grayling were somewhat bony, but they finished off the three fish without complaint and supplemented their meal with a handful of the dried berries. |
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The meat from these fish is white, flaky, and sweet, but bony. |
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They were tough, bony, slightly burnt and very difficult to eat. |
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Their diet consists primarily of bony fishes and small sharks, including young bull sharks, but they have been known to feast on everything from seabirds to dogs. |
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The small cup was shoved gently into her hands by the silent guy and then when she looked up again the bony man lay on the floor gripping his side in anguish. |
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Sure enough, an extremely tall and bony man descended from the spiral staircase to their right, dressed exquisitely in a solid black suit and tie. |
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One tall, bony girl pushed forward through the people around me. |
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Without looking, Monty pointed a thin bony finger across the narrow inlet where soldiers were pulling a limp, but responding living human from the water. |
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Foods rich in calcium include milk and milk products, fortified cereals, calcium-fortified beverages, calcium-set tofu, bony fish, kale and Chinese cabbage. |
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The boxfish, for example, is an aquatic tank with two bony skeletons, one on the inside to support its innards and one on the outside to deter predators. |
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This site has yielded a relatively well-preserved and diverse nearshore marine vertebrate fauna consisting of sharks, rays, bony fishes, reptiles, and whales. |
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For an Anglicised version of this curry, use firm-fleshed fish with a good bony head such as black bream, grey mullet and gurnard, to help make the stock rich. |
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The pants were straight legged, so they didn't show any bony legs and yet at the bottom, they still showed the right amount of skin, with no bruising. |
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A bunion looks like a swollen, red, bony bump at the base of the big toe. |
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In ventral view, the sphenorbital fissure, which is long and oval, is exposed posteriorly and is separated from the relatively small optic foramen by a narrow bony splint. |
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In one bony, skeletal hand it clutched a large butcher knife. |
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Like squids and octopuses, cuttlefishes have a funnel for jet propulsion, but unlike the other two, they also have an internal, oval-shaped bony chamber that fills with gas. |
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That bony, squint-eyed, curly-haired little sneak, attractive? |
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The bony otic capsule, the petrosal, is connected to the skull with cartilage, so that it can swing independently. |
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Histologically, osteoclasts around bony trabeculae are present, indicating active bony resorption at the revascularization front. |
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It is predominantly found in the temperate and tropical oceans and is the longest bony fish alive. |
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The very bony fish fed indentured servants, and sustained George Washington's desperate Delaware army. |
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Stegosaurs had bony back plates and tail spikes, and ankylosaurs sported heavily armoured bodies and bony tail clubs. |
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This opening is hidden beneath a protective bony cover called an operculum. |
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Ocean sunfish are considered to be the heaviest known bony fish in the world. |
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Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. |
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If you are in it for a dare then experiment with the salted duck eggs, bony chicken feet or soya-soaked sea slugs. |
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It is nicknamed diamondback for the five rows of bony plates, or scutes along its back. |
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Murray's deep-fried squab was bony and over-cooked so that it was dry and had a liverish texture, with the merest hint of five spice powder. |
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A type I tympanoplasty was required to extend the tympanic membrane to the lowered floor of the bony canal because of the hypotympanic approach. |
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Sounds are generated by passing air from the bony nares through the phonic lips. |
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Labral tears in isolation are extremely rare and are usually associated with other bony abnormalities. |
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Gabrielle Richard, 24, a hairdresser from Manchester, felt her pubic area was too bony so she opted for augmentation labioplasty. |
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Nicknamed the King of Herrings by marine experts, the oarfish is the world's longest species of bony fish. |
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Cartilaginous fish, which today include sharks, rays, and ratfish, diverged from the bony fishes more than 420 million years ago. |
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Rare fossils include an annelid worm, two crabs, a spiny lobster, a ratfish, a ray, unidentified bony fishes, and reptiles reported here. |
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Chordomas are rare and unique bony tumors that arise along the neural axis and are thought to originate from the nucleus pulposus. |
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Radiographically, the bony walls of the sinus are of normal thickness, and there is no evidence of erosion. |
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Ankylosaurs were four-legged plant eaters with rows of bony plates covering their backs and skulls. |
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In cases with bony fragment avulsions, the size of the fracture fragment guides primary treatment. |
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Numerous bony excrescences resembling small osteophytes and osteochondromas were seen in involved phalanges. |
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Apart from congenital anomalies, other benign primary bony lesions include fibrous dysplasia, aneurysmal bone cyst and osteochondromata. |
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A significant evolutionary milestone during the Silurian was the diversification of jawed and bony fish. |
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A reported 33,400 species of fish, including bony and cartilaginous fish, had been described by 2016, more than all other vertebrates combined. |
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These had long bodies, a head covered with bony plates and generally weak or undeveloped limbs. |
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In the 1970s, analyses of pachycephalosaur fossils revealed large numbers of bony fibers within the crown of the skull. |
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On physical examination, a bony mass was palpated in relation to the anterior aspect of the left 4th rib. |
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The round window niche was exposed through a posterior tympanotomy and mainly the anterior bony overhang of the round window niche was removed. |
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Long and snout-nosed with rows of platelike bony protrusions, sturgeon have a dinosaur-era look. |
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Also the petrified bony bits and pieces of dentition of ruminants were discovered from Dhok Bun Ameer Khatoon, Chakwal. |
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The Partition or Sepiment which divides the great Cavity of the Nose, the Crista Galli, and the Ethmoidal bone is not bony in the Foetus. |
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Among the bony fish, the Palaeonisciformes found in coastal waters also appear to have migrated to rivers. |
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It can easily be differentiated from other modern sea turtles by its lack of a bony shell, hence the name. |
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They attach themselves to bony fish, sharks, marine mammals, and many kinds of invertebrates such as molluscs, tunicates, or corals. |
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The dermis is made up of many components, such as bony structures and blood vessels. |
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The walls of the braincase are bony but lack supratemporal and postfrontal bones. |
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Cranial modifications like horns and crests are common dinosaurian traits, and some extinct species had bony armor. |
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It is surrounded by lips of softer tissue, with numerous small, bony pieces embedded in it. |
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It lies in a similar shaped cavity of the temporal bone known as bony labyrinth filled with perilymph. |
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Endothermic bony fishes are all in the suborder Scombroidei and include the butterfly mackerel, a species of primitive mackerel. |
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Odontochelys displays a complete bony plastron and an incomplete carapace, similar to an early stage of turtle embryonic development. |
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The postnasal spaces were equal and symmetrical and there was no evidence of focal bony destruction. |
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Others referred to interfragmentary movements to describe local mechanical conditions needed for adequate bony healing. |
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The carapace and plastron are joined together on the turtle's sides by bony structures called bridges. |
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The Cenozoic world has seen great diversification of bony fishes, frogs, birds and mammals. |
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The black swallower, with its distensible stomach, is notable for its ability to swallow, whole, bony fishes ten times its mass. |
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The two groups of bony fishes, the actinopterygii and sarcopterygii, evolved and became common. |
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In amphibians and some primitive bony fishes, the larvae bear external gills, branching off from the gill arches. |
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Unlike other bony fishes, the first scales do not develop immediately after the larval stage but appear much later on. |
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Antler development begins from the pedicel, a bony structure that appears on the top of the skull by the time the animal is a year old. |
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These bony elements develop directly, meaning they do not have any cartilaginous precursors. |
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Sharks and rays are both cartilaginous fishes which can be contrasted with bony fishes. |
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The bony fish have three pairs of arches, cartilaginous fish have five to seven pairs, while the primitive jawless fish have seven. |
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They also lack vertebral centra, and are partially covered with 5 lateral rows of bony plates called scutes rather than scales. |
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Along with other members of the subclass Chondrostei, they are unique among bony fishes because the skeleton is almost entirely cartilaginous. |
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European plaice are characterised by their smooth brown skin, with distinctive red spots and bony ridge behind the eyes. |
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The metaphyses contained sparse, thin, bony trabeculae with retention of cartilage cores and few intertrabecular connections. |
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The inner ear consists of the cochlea, vestibule and semicircular canals encased in the bony otic capsule. |
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Other surgical procedures include exostectomy of bony prominences, osteotomy, partial tarsectomy, and Achilles tendon lengthening. |
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One year later, a left-sided mastoidectomy was performed to repair the focal bony defect. |
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However, forward movement is limited by the medial and lateral canthal tendons that attach the eyelids to the bony orbital rim. |
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In the first stage, the individual teeth grew at exactly the same time and in the same positions as in other bony fishes. |
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Many bony fish have an internal organ called a swim bladder that adjusts their buoyancy through manipulation of gases. |
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Later, sharks and bony fish lost the muscles and then early four-limbed vertebrates that moved onto land independently evolved them. |
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Other studies that may be performed to visualize bony anatomy include computed tomography and myelography. |
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As well as controlling some muscles and body organs, in bony fish at least, the brain stem governs respiration and osmoregulation. |
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If the slightly agape mouth is closed prior to mouth opening, this is termed the preparatory phase and is more common in suction-feeding bony fishes than elasmobranchs. |
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Sturgeons retain several primitive characters among the bony fishes. |
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It reportedly feeds on smaller sharks, bony fishes, and crabs. |
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His cheeks were wrinkled like a last year's apple, but his sweep of shoulder, and bony, corded hands, told of a strength which was unsapped by age. |
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Pillans says little is known about sawfish movements, biology and habitats, but as a general rule, sawfish species have much lower reproductive rates than bony fishes. |
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Radiographs in chronic OM document deformed bone, often with thick, undulating cortices, and bony sequestra entrapped by lucencies indicative of fibrous tissue and or pus. |
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Elaborate display structures such as horns or crests are common to all dinosaur groups, and some extinct groups developed skeletal modifications such as bony armor and spines. |
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The eel is a long, thin bony fish of the order Anguilliformes. |
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Five introductory chapters explain basic kinesiology terminology, how to palpate, bones and bony landmarks and their palpation, and how muscles function. |
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This has been observed primarily among sharks, such as the shortfin mako and porbeagle, but is known for a few bony fish as well, such as the halfbeak Nomorhamphus ebrardtii. |
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The convex anterior margin ascends to the lacrimal bone and in some patients to the skull base or the lamina papyracea, remaining in contact with the bony lateral nasal wall. |
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However, MATR improved these parameters significantly in both bony and mucosal hypertrophies, whereas LATR did not improve both parameters in bony hypertrophy. |
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Each gill is supported by a cartilagenous or bony gill arch. |
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The spinous process of vertebra CII can be identified through deep palpation as the most superior bony protuberance in the midline inferior to the skull. |
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She'd been looking at him throughout his speech, at the lank height of him, the long-fingered, bony hands, the long head, rather hatchety, the deep-set gray eyes. |
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There are almost 28,000 known extant species, of which almost 27,000 are bony fish, with 970 sharks, rays, and chimeras and about 108 hagfish and lampreys. |
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The complete fossil skeleton of a Glyptodont shows how this car-sized armadillo relative was covered with a thick, bony shell to protect itself from large predators. |
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They mainly feed on cephalopods, crustaceans, and bony fishes. |
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Gardiner also studies the sensory systems of bony fish and sea turtles. |
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Based on the annual rings of the bony otic capsule, the age of the oldest known specimen is a male determined to be 211 years at the time of death. |
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Bright-beady of eye, bony of cheek and jaw, scarred, toughened, broken and reknit, indestructible, grisly, gladiatorial as a hornet, he was a type neither new nor unfamiliar. |
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