Its survival in man as a useless and dangerous aborted organ is a powerful argument in favor of his descent from the lower animals.
A similar condition may be seen in the birds, the bones of whose fore-limbs have largely aborted from lack of employment as walking organs.
The worshippers probably content themselves with bleeding a foetus which had been aborted as soon as it became matured to the point necessary.
The general arguments in favour of a Zoaea ancestor with partially or completely aborted thoracic appendages having actually existed in the past appear to me very powerful.
Claus maintains that the Zoaea form withaborted thorax is only a larval form; but he would probably admit that its larval characters were acquired to enable the larva to swim better.
In the adult the second pair of appendages becomes enlarged again and forms the so-called palpi, while the third pair develops in the male into the egg-carrying appendages, but is aborted in the female.
It becomes completely aborted after the larva is fixed.
The coracoid and scapula are aborted and may be absent.
Haast considered that the coracoid was aborted and often absent in this genus, in Emeus, and Pachyornis.
Paraphyses may be present as aborted basidia, but cystidia are rarely distinguished.
Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches.
The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state.
In a case which aborted on the twelfth day there were hebetude, diarrhoea, tympany, and rose-colored spots persisting even after the subsidence of the fever.
In the adult, the first two or three segments with these aborted tubes contain only accessory Malpighian bodies; the remaining segments, with aborted segmental tubes, both secondary and primary Malpighian bodies.
The presence or absence of fin-rays in the tail-fin supported by haemal arches may be used in deciding whether apparently diphycercal tail-fins are aborted or primitive.
In the intervertebral regions the membrana elastica externa has become aborted at the posterior border of each vertebra, and the remaining part is considerably puckered transversely.
In neither case are the Malpighian bodies connected with the aborted tubes.
The canal enclosed by the haemal arches can be demonstrated embryologically to be the aborted body-cavity.
On each side of it are a pair of short papillae (aborted feet?
The fin-rays so supported clearly constitute an aborted ventral lobe of the caudal fin.
I believe, is homologically terminal, and owes its dorsal aspect to the aborted state of the whole abdomen, and to the great development of the probosciformed penis; for the anus may be said to be situated on the dorsal base of this organ.
It then gradually shortens up until it becomes the aborted organ of typical modern birds.
At first the tail is nearly one half the whole vertebral column; then, as development goes on, while the rest of the body grows, the growth of the tail stops, and thus finally becomes the aborted organ we now find.
Forbes has detected, in a recently exhumed specimen of the latter, an indication of the glenoid cavity, for the articulation of an extremely aborted humerus.
Footnote 177: It seems quite possible that the absence of pappus in this case is a recent adaptation, and that it has been brought about by causes similar to those which have reduced oraborted the wings of insects in oceanic islands.
Among them are the aborted index finger of the lemurine Potto, and the thumbless hands of Colobus and Ateles, the "life-saving action" of either of which he thinks incredible.
In the genus Thymus, for instance, the aborted anthers of the female are much better protected than the perfect ones of the hermaphrodite.
Judging from what I have myself seen and from the descriptions of others, all the plants in Britain, Germany, and near Mentone, are in the state just described; and I have never found a single flower with an aborted pistil.
The ovules in both kinds of males are in an aborted condition.
I may premise that the pollen of two of the short-styled oxlips consisted of nothing but minute aborted whitish cells; but in the third short-styled plant about one- fifth of the grains appeared in a sound condition.
In like manner, in all birds the right ovary is aborted and without function; only the left one is developed, and yields all the eggs.
Excepting right P2, which has been aborted or broken away, all the teeth are present.
The woman aborted on the fourteenth day, but recovered.
Baudet reported a case in which there were four perforations of the small intestine: he sutured the wounds in the uterus and the holes in the bowel; the woman aborted some hours after the operation, but recovered.
According to NASA, a malfunctioning fuel monitor was the cause of today's aborted shuttle launch.
Earache must always be thought of as a possible cause when the cry of pain accompanies a cold in the head, and if medical aid is secured early, the abscess may be aborted and the deafness of later years entirely avoided.
One patient who had aborted on four different occasions was able to pass this danger period by adhering to a rigid program of prevention during her fifth pregnancy.
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