The [oe]sophagus is well furnished with constrictor and radiating muscles for closing and opening it; and it is thus capable of a strong swallowing movement.
These bands of hairs, and the opposed discs, armed with very strong teeth, can be separated and brought together with force, by the action of strong constrictor and diverging muscles.
Advancing closer, we fired our pistols directly into its head, a convulsive quiver ran through the mighty frame, and the boa constrictor lay dead.
He thinks nothing of festooning a boa constrictor about his neck and arms, and in his sanctum he keeps young crocodiles in sundry watering-pots, and other crawling things in unexpected places.
If a boa constrictor or a python begin to curl himself about you, you should pinch him vigorously, and he will loosen his folds and get away from you.
If Jack loved a woman, I would not compare her to a boa constrictor in his presence, however much I might dislike her [he sits down between the busts and turns his face to the wall].
The boa constrictor doesn't mind the opinions of a stag one little bit when once she has got her coils round it.
You might as well refuse to accept the embraces of a boa constrictor when once it gets round your neck.
The respiratory muscles of Ammocoetes are three in number, and have been described by Nestler and Miss Alcock as the adductor muscle, the striated constrictor muscle, and the tubular constrictor muscle (Fig.
Of these the first group is represented in the vertebrate by the muscles which move the eye, the second group by the striated constrictor and adductor muscles and the muscles for the lower lip.
The close relationship of theconstrictor muscle to the cartilaginous branchial bar does not favour the surmise that this muscle is homologous with the dorso-ventral somatic muscle of the scorpion.
The rattlesnake lay stretched at full length--evidently dead; while the black constrictor still continued to hug the speckled body, as though it was an object to be loved.
I can pull a boa constrictor straight--" "We'll give you a chance.
The flamboyant advertising posters attracted crowds to see the man who could set a bear trap with his teeth, who could pull an angry boa constrictor into a straight line.
Besides she was right; the boa constrictor which he rode calmed down a little, marching with a dignity more in accordance with its size.
He seemed to be carried on the back of a galloping boa constrictor with a couple of others streaking away under his armpits.
These are emphatically the great constrictor Serpents, to all of which the name of Boa-constrictor is popularly applied, although this appellation refers properly to one only of them which is peculiar to South America.
The Boa-constrictor darts upon the Deer, binds him in its snaky coils, breaks his bones, and little by little swallows him entirely.
Wriggletto was a boa-constrictor I once knew in South America, and he was without exception, the most remarkable bit of a serpent I ever met.
The first time was when, at his own request, he was allowed to witness the repugnant sight of a boa-constrictor devouring a live rabbit.
The disadvantage of using these drugs lies in the fact that secondary hemorrhage is possible when their constrictor action is over.
For the above reason many operators prefer a general anesthetic or one of the local anesthetic drugs which exert no constrictor action so that they may know, ab initio, the exact degree of bleeding.
The inferior constrictor of the pharynx is divided as close to the attachment to the thyreoid as possible, and the cavity of the pharynx is opened behind the growth.
Our two great attractions were the biggest boa-constrictor in captivity, which we called 'Jointless Jake,' and the heaviest fat man in the world.
He needed to find the constrictor by the time Relegar started after him.
The constrictor could be worth a lot more than two hundred dollars to him.
He didn't dare let theconstrictor have more than three day's head-start, for the saurian would finish digesting the fish in about five days.
Grant was encouraged by the fact that the constrictor did not appear to be far away.
Grant found the constrictor on the second day, lying in a shallow pool with only its dorsal spines showing.
These proceedings began to arouse alarm and discontent among the Spanish people; but on its Government their influence was as benumbing as that which the boa-constrictor exerts on its prey.
The weight of that boa-constrictor would be very great on earth, and here I should think it would be simply crushing.
A few seconds more and nearly every bone in his body would have been crushed, for that is the manner in which a constrictor snake kills its prey before devouring it.
The membrane lining the oesophagus is unusually thin: it is furnished with the ordinary constrictor muscles, and others radiating from them like spokes of a wheel.
Bids abominably low at first, but slowly crawling up; crawling slowly, as a boa constrictor crawls up on its victim.
Laffont, studying the action of Cocaine on the great sympathetic nervous system, found that under the action of the active principle of Coca the functions of all the constrictor fibres of the great sympathetic nerve were increased.
Laborde considers that it produces a diminished blood supply by the vaso-constrictor action of the great sympathetic nervous system, M.
If a jaguar was only nine feet long and the boa-constrictor was thirty-five feet long, then there would be a lot sticking out of the jaguar's mouth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "constrictor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
