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The bony plates on the armadillos' back serves as protective armour from predators.
The external auditory meatus runs as a bony tube to the side of the tympanohyal we cannot see on the left-hand picture.
Sturgeon species are noted by a spindle-shaped body with five rows of bony scutes and a long snout with sensory barbels.
When using handheld massagers like this, stay away from bony areas, especially around your spine, to avoid bruising.
These advances culminated in the modern bony fish, or teleosts, which show a tremendous diversity of mouth parts and feeding specializations.
A whole-body bone scan showed no evidence of bony metastases, and a mammogram showed no evidence of malignancy.
Finally, ancestral archosaurs had a double row of bony plates running along the backbone.
Because of the bony articulation between the medial malleolus and the talus, medial ankle sprains are less common than lateral sprains.
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.
Body protected by armour of bony plates, male carries fertilised eggs until they hatch into miniature adults.
The pirarucu's sheer size and bony armor provide defenses against predators.
Freshwater clams first appear along with an increase in gastropod, bony fish, and shark diversity.
The Galeaspida are a strange group of armored fishes possessing a massive, flattened, one-piece bony shield.
The spinal column is composed of seven cervical vertebrae, twelve thoracic vertebrae, five lumbar vertebrae, the bony sacrum, and the coccyx.
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.
The bony surfaces are covered with cartilage and separated by a small disk, which prevents them from rubbing against each other.
Dr Tyler says there is some agreement that the common ancestor was a bony fish.
Unlike with bony fish, only a handful of lamprey fossils have ever been found, because cartilage usually decays too fast to become fossilized.
Reptiles like alligators, snakes and lizards as well as marine animals like seals, whales, sharks and bony fish are also used as well.
Leafy seadragons are bony fish in the family Syngnathidae which includes seahorses and pipefishes.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Often and often do his bony fingers almost clutch our throat, or his foot is put out to give us a cross-buttock.
But it is not evident that a bony fish possesses a real scapula, coracoid, or even clavicle.
In the Amphibian skull there are as a rule far fewer bones than in the skull of bony fish.
In all of the bovid the horns are simple, hollow, and permanent, each enclosing a bony core.
If there is a bony projection from the calcaneus, it should be shaved off with the chisel.
The cicisbeo is a bony cartilaginous gentleman, fixed perpendicularly on his saddle like a telegraph-pole.
The clavicle, coracoid, and scapula on each side form a bony articulation at the glenoid fossa.
The anterolateral and posterolateral processes of the prevomers form the incomplete bony internal margin of the choanae.
This appearance of thickness is enhanced by the contours of bony shell which correspond to the contours of the scutes.
These small, fishlike forms were cased in front with bony plates developed in the skin and covered in the rear with scales.
The most common example of the ganoid fish is the sturgeon, which is heavily clad with a bony armor.
In some cases, as in the gurnard, this stay covers the whole cheek with a bony coat of mail.
He had a shaven cranium, and his tight scalp might have been slipped over the bony bosses of his head with a shoehorn.
Under the plaster, stockinette drawers are worn, and the bony prominences are padded with cotton wool.
Drupe ovoid or oblong, with a bony and grooved or striate 1-celled and 1-seeded stone.
Omega explained that likely its bony scales had acted as an insulator against the action of the invisible wall.
At the hall entrance he encountered Leonard's huntsman, an impertinent, bony, jowly loafer whom he had never been able to endure.
The symbiote lived and flourished in its new environment, well protected by a bony skull in a long-lived host.
Teleostean fishes are generally bony, but the bones are represented by cartilages in leptocephalus.
Set on this was a bony, ugly head that was split clear across by lipless jaws.
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