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The data set included sequences of genes from mammals, birds, amphibians, coelacanths, lungfishes, ray-finned fishes, and cartilaginous fishes.
Although most of the nasal structures are cartilaginous, the nasal bones usually are fractured in an injury.
The human larynx is composed of cartilaginous tissue that early in adulthood progressively undergoes ossification.
The menisci are two pads of cartilaginous tissue which serve to disperse friction.
By the late Devonian, 360 million years ago, early cartilaginous fish and bony fish were diversifying.
The snout of peccaries has the same mobile cartilaginous disk and terminal nostrils as pigs.
The coracoclavicular syndesmosis may be a diarthrosis or a cartilaginous symphysis.
An important organ seen in ray-finned fish but not in cartilaginous fish is the swim bladder.
Pale-faced, he told me he was trying to pierce his ear, but couldn't get the needle through the cartilaginous lobe.
In more basal vertebrates, cartilaginous structures can become superficially calcified in at least two different modes.
They also have a cartilaginous skeleton, heterocercal tail, and lack scales.
Interposed between the epiphysis and the diaphysis is the cartilaginous epiphyseal plate.
First appearing on Earth almost 450 million years ago, cartilaginous fish today include both fearsome predators and harmless mollusc-eaters.
An unorthodox scenario placing cartilaginous fish within bony fish has been suggested but has received no additional support.
More recent research demonstrated that none of the five invertebrates tested, nor the one cartilaginous fish had these receptors.
This property allows the tail to be light and flexible, yet stiff enough to generate thrust in the absence of a bony or cartilaginous skeleton.
That is, the cartilaginous radials extend to margins of pectoral fin, functionally and physically displacing the keratinous ceratotrichia.
These organisms had a cartilaginous internal skeleton and a bony exoskeleton.
The adventitia contains the cartilaginous rings interconnected by connective tissue.
Since achondroplasia affects mainly cartilaginous bones, the sitting height is normal while the standing height is short.
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The notochord in living forms is unsegmented, but segmented cartilaginous neural arches are present in some cases.
The pterotic, or the cartilaginous region corresponding to it, always supplies the articular surface for the hyomandibular.
The cicisbeo is a bony cartilaginous gentleman, fixed perpendicularly on his saddle like a telegraph-pole.
In the males a cartilaginous generative organ, known as the clasper, is attached to the pelvis and the ventral fins.
The coagula were numerous, and the superficial ones, quite hard and cartilaginous.
Biconcave cartilaginous vertebrae are developed, and as is the case in most fishes, constrict the notochord vertebrally.
In the archaic tail, enameled scales, and cartilaginous skeleton the crossopterygian shows its affinity with its Dipnoan ancestry.
In certain Fishes the cartilaginous cranium remains quite unossified, while completely enveloped in dermal bones.
The endoskeleton, excluding the notochord, is entirely cartilaginous or membranous.
The notochord is persistent and unconstricted, its sheath is membranous, but cartilaginous neural and haemal arches are developed.
The tegmen tympani are much reduced and maintain only cartilaginous contact with the posterior arms of the squamosals.
The only bone developed in connection with the appendicular skeleton, which has no cartilaginous predecessor, is the clavicle.
The nasal chambers are completely separated, the right from the left, by a cartilaginous partition, the nasal septum.
Of these bones the vomer is never related to a cartilaginous tract below, while the palatines and pterygoids usually are so.
The other element, the cartilaginous brain-box, does not ossify, and tends to become absorbed.
In Manis macrura the xiphisternum is drawn out into a pair of cartilaginous processes about nine inches long.
The xiphoid appendix, which is cartilaginous, is attached to the extremity of a long process of the last bone of the sternum.
In the cartilaginous Ganoids the pelvic girdle is hardly to be separated from the skeleton of the fin.
It is formed by a fenestration of a primitively continuous cartilaginous coracoid plate.
These are attached by short tubes, the bronchi, to the long cartilaginous trachea.
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