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The last part contains the portion of the membranous labyrinth that is involved in hearing perception.
If the membranous labyrinth ruptures, the endolymph mixes with another inner ear fluid called perilymph.
The important feature in this case is the membranous pad-like structure closely applied to the ventral surface of each of the ungues.
The baby is receiving emergency treatment on an extra-corporeal membranous oxygenation machine, to help him breathe.
Airway vascularity was dense in intercartilage areas, but sparse in cartilage or membranous areas of the trachea.
The molecular mechanisms coordinating the development of the membranous and bony labyrinths are largely unknown.
It mimics birds, bats or pterodactyls of the dinosaur era, and has membranous wings.
There is a rather extensive membranous area separating the sterna of the mesothorax and the metathorax.
Pulling himself upright, Raidan wrapped his membranous wings around himself, hugging the warmth close.
A 25-year-old white female had an eight-year history of SLE with associated membranous nephritis, and hypertension.
Tonics like ginseng, the root of membranous milk vetch, dangsheng and baishu are used.
One evident reason for the absence of any form of bounding flight in bats is the difficulty of folding their membranous wings to save wing drag.
If you do not plan to tan the hide immediately after skinning it, remove as much of the flesh, fat, membranous tissue as possible.
Within each semicircular canal of the bony labyrinth is a semicircular canal of the membranous labyrinth.
He showed how terrestrial animals such as snails can survive immersion even in salt water by forming a hard membranous diaphragm over the mouth of the shell.
They're huge white maggots with transparent membranous skin.
The texture of the mature perianth of the Salicornioideae may be soft and characterized as membranous, pithy or chartaceous or hardened, appearing crustaceous, corky or woody.
She gulped nervously as they disappeared and the creature tucked its membranous wings to itself and rocketed toward the group of the others that had broken out.
Unground agar usually occurs in bundles consisting of thin, membranous, agglutinated strips, or in cut, flaked or granulated forms.
Primary and secondary umbels with subtending bracts, bracts of primary umbels biggish, leaf-like, with membranous margins.
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The fourth glume is membranous when young, but later on it becomes thick, coriaceous and rugose at the surface.
If aphonia and difficulty of both inspiration and expiration be present at the same time, there is certainly membranous occlusion.
The upper organs of flight, when they are corneous or coriaceous at the base and membranous at the apex.
Anteriorly the saccule communicates with the membranous cochlea or scala media by a short ductus reuniens.
The endoskeleton, excluding the notochord, is entirely cartilaginous or membranous.
All the muscles are enveloped in membranes, and the fasciculi, or bundles and fibres of muscles, have their membranous sheathing.
The notochord is persistent and unconstricted, its sheath is membranous, but cartilaginous neural and haemal arches are developed.
The coriaceous part of the hemelytra is of a purple tint, but the membranous part is brown.
Its thorax is greyish, the hemelytra of a greenish grey, the membranous wings white.
Like the upper sacs, each of these has two dark-brown, lamellar, glandular masses depending from its membranous visceral wall.
They are both strong-smelling plants with bulbous roots, radical leaves, and flowers arranged in an umbel with membranous spathes.
Note the delicate membranous dark-colored sac on the floor of the pericardium, the kidneys or nephridia.
Between the bony walls of the passages and the membranous bag inside is a thin, clear fluid, the perilymph.
Gray calls it the periostracum, from the membranous skin covering the bones of quadrupeds.
Exudations of a membranous character may be present, and are found attached to the surfaces of the pia mater.
Pinnules distant, the reflexed, narrow margin forming a continuous, membranous indusium.
This will leave a membranous bag that can be used in place of the parchment bag.
In most cases, however, the peridia are connate throughout, and sometimes present above a membranous common covering.
So may any membranous point be infected by the gonococcus, whether conveyed by hand or instrument or fabric.
Peter busied himself with cleaning and inflating a number of the larger entrails and membranous viscera of the hooded seal.
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