The mouth is large and distensible so that prey of considerably greater size than the normal diameter of the snake's body is frequently swallowed whole.
Inflate the oesophagus with a blowpipe and note how distensible is its lower end near the breast.
What is said of the distensiblecharacter of the stomach and alimentary canal?
The food should be adapted to the distensible character of the stomach and alimentary canal.
The vagina is sufficiently distensible to allow of the passage of so large a body as the child.
Chiasmodon niger, the black swallower of the mid-Atlantic, has exceedingly long teeth and the whole body so distensible that it can swallow fishes of many times its own size.
The Malacosteidæ is a related group with extremely distensible mouth, the species capable of swallowing fishes much larger than themselves.
The Evermannellidæ is a small family of small deep-sea fishes with large teeth, distensible muscles, and an extraordinary power of swallowing other fishes, scarcely surpassed by Chiasmodon or Saccopharynx.
Yet only a few moments before a long green snake with three hundred ribs, a distensible gullet, and gastrocentrous vertebras must have descended on that street like the gentle rain from Heaven upon the place beneath.
Peter, the snake, loafing contentedly about the carpet, found himself seized by what the Encyclopaedia calls the "distensible gullet" and looked up reproachfully.
Device by Compressible andDistensible Bags in Liquid In the year 1823, an account of a Perpetual Motion device was sent to "Mechanics' Magazine" by some correspondent.
Its powerful voice is due to thedistensible resonator which it possesses in its laryngeal pouch, described above.
Certain genera possess also sacs formed by distensible folds of the skin in the cheeks.
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