The noxiousness of the snake does not lie in its copper-red dorsal bands, nor the terribleness of the beast of prey in its graceful appearance, nor the danger of the poisonous plant in the form and colour of its blossoms.
Rank suffers from disease of the dorsal marrow (it is true that he speaks of the dorsal column, but the mistaken expression need not be taken too rigidly).
Peristome on the dorsal corner with a single simple vertical tooth, which is straight, three-sided prismatic, and as long as the shell.
The basal and ventral spine are larger than the apical and dorsal spine; the ventral rod is more curved (with smaller angle) than the shorter dorsal rod.
Dorsal valve somewhat smaller than the ventral, of similar form.
Dorsal rod vertical, twice as long as the horizontal basal rod.
The two apical and the two basal spines are simple and conical, whilst the eight other spines, arising in pairs from the two dorsal and the two ventral corners, are slightly forked.
Its constant position between the two lattice-valves (dorsal and ventral) is such, that its three openings lie in the frontal plane, in the open fissure between the valves.
The dorsal rod of the ring is prolonged at the upper pole into an ascending apical horn, at the lower pole into a descending caudal foot, whilst two paired pectoral or lateral feet arise from the anterior pole of the basal rod.
The distance of the shell-wall from the enclosed ring is usually least on the basal rod, and greatest on the dorsal rod.
A broad longitudinal dorsal band of some shade of yellow-brown flecked with black hairs is bordered by a lateral band of a lighter color usually containing fewer black hairs than on the dorsum.
In Zapus princeps new hair appears first on the mid-dorsal surface between the scapulae.
In Zapus the head of the malleus is angular with an anterior projecting point and is flattened in dorsal aspect.
The lateral anddorsal bands are not so conspicuously marked in young animals, and individual hairs are not so long or so wide as in adult animals.
The baculum (os penis) of Eozapus is known to me only from Vinogradov's (1925) figures of the dorsal and lateral aspects.
Dorsal and lateral views of the bacula of the Recent genera (and species of the genus Zapus) of the subfamily Zapodinae.
In the species Zapus trinotatus new hair appears simultaneously on the anterior, dorsal surface of the nose and on the mid-dorsal surface between the scapulae.
In Zapus hudsonius, new hair appears simultaneously on the anterior dorsal surface of the nose and on the mid-dorsal surface between the scapulae.
Then the hump elongates and up rolls an immense blue-grey or blackish-grey round back with a faint ridge along the top, on which presently appears a small hook-like dorsal fin, and then the whole sinks and disappears.
It is most difficult to place species with scientific accuracy which can only be observed swimming in the water, and of which more often than not only blows and the dorsal fins can be observed.
The rarest dolphin seen was Tersio peronii, the peculiarity of which is that it has no dorsal fin.
The chaetae drop off, and the lophophore is believed to arise from thickenings which appear in the dorsal mantle lobe.
Interior ofdorsal valve, to show the position of the labial appendages.
There are four of such masses, two dorsal and two ventral, and as a rule they extend between the outer and inner layer of the mantle lining the shells.
By this time the eyes have disappeared, the four bundles of chaetae have dropped off, and the lophophore has begun to appear as an outgrowth of the dorsal mantle lobe.
The heart gives off posteriorly a second median vessel which divides almost at once into a right and a left half, each of which again divides into two vessels which run to the dorsal and ventral mantles respectively.
The pro-deltidium, a term introduced by Hall and Clarke, signifies a small embryonic plate originating on the dorsal side of the body.
These irregularities are likewise, at times, reproduced on the upper or dorsal valve.
The pro-deltidium originating on the dorsal surface later becomes anchylosed with the ventral valve.
In some species, such as Thecidea, the animal could raise its dorsalvalve at right angles to the plane of the ventral one (fig.
A vessel--the dorsal vessel--runs forward from the heart along the dorsal surface of the oesophagus.
Pectorals yellow or orange coloured, with dark bases; scales faintly fan-streaked; last rays of dorsal and anal elongated.
Dorsal fin continuous for about three and a half inches behind the snout to the point of the tail: its rays very delicate; anal like the dorsal, but commencing behind the vent.
Another cause tending to distortion of the spine is the foolish habit of using corsets, a practice which contributes to weaken the dorsal muscles.
A dorsal and a ventral plate are often distinguished, known respectively as the tergum and the sternum, and the tergum may overhang the insertion of the limb on each side as a free plate called the pleuron.
The mouth is overhung by a large labrum or upper lip, and the integument of the dorsal surface of the body forms a more or less definite dorsal shield.
Lepidurus Angassi: a, dorsal aspect; b, ventral aspect of head showing the labrum and mouth-parts.
With the elongation of the body, the dorsal shield begins to project posteriorly as a shell-fold, which may increase in size to envelop more or less of the body or may disappear altogether.
Fruit with filiform dorsal ribs, thin wings, and solitary oil-tubes.
Dorsal ribs filiform, the lateral very thick and corky; oil-tubes solitary.
Fruit with a thick corky margin, obscure dorsal ribs, and very numerous oil-tubes.
Acaulescent or nearly so, with filiformdorsal ribs, thin wings, and no stylopodium.
Ovules a pair in each cell, suspended, with the rhaphe dorsal (turned away from the placenta).
Dorsal ribs filiform, the broad wings with a marginal nerve.
In the Trumpeter this enters a protuberance that stands out on the dorsal aspect of the sternum, which is wanting in both the other kinds.
The appearance of the creature was changed in an instant, and I could perceive that the air was becoming impregnated with a disagreeable odour, which the incensed animal emitted from its dorsal gland.
They kept constantly uttering their shrill, disagreeable grunts; and the odour, resembling the smell of musk and garlic, which they emitted from their dorsal glands, almost stifled me.
Dorsal view of the jaw musculature of the Morning Dove (right side); deep layer.
The insertion is fleshy on the dorsal and lateral surfaces of the mandible immediately anterior to the articulating surface.
Fibers from the dorsal and dorsomedial sides of the heavy tendon run rostrad and insert on the ventral surface of the dorsal aponeurosis of pars profundus.
The ventral aponeurosis inserts on a crista immediately below the insertion of the dorsal aponeurosis.
Dorsal view of the jaw musculature of the White-winged Dove (right side); deep layer.
The aponeurosis extends about three-fifths of the distance along the muscle and it is dorsal or superficial to all of the fibers.
It receives fibers on its ventral surface from the otic process of the quadrate, and on its dorsal surface gives rise to fibers that insert on the dorsal aponeurosis (figs.
The most dorsal aponeurosis inserts on a tubercle at the posterior tip of the dorsaledge of the mandible.
The insertion is immediately anterior to the ventral aponeurosis of pars profundus near the medial edge of the dorsal surface on a tubercle at the posterior end of the dorsal ridge of the lower mandible.
The origin is fleshy from the medial and partially from the dorsal surface of the lower mandible.
Dorsal view of the jaw musculature of the Mourning Dove (right side); middle layer.
The origin is fleshy from the posterior wall of the orbit, dorsal to the foramen of the trigeminal nerve, lateral to the origin of M.
Fallopius noted thirteen pair of ribs and only four lumbar vertebrae; and Eustachius once found eleven dorsal vertebrae and six lumbar vertebrae.
In the Vertebrata, in which this organ has the form of a tube extending along the dorsal surface of the body, it arises as a groove of the medullary plate, which becomes constricted into a canal.
This is due almost entirely to the enormous growth of the cerebral vesicle, which is an outgrowth of the dorsal wall of the fore-brain just short of its anterior end.
The optic nerve, indeed, is morphologically the first cranial nerve, the olfactory being the second; both are attached to what is morphologically the dorsal side of the nerve tube.
Now, as natation is generally effected by repeated and vigorous lateral flexions of the body, we ought to find the segmentation much more complete laterally than on the dorsal and ventral aspects of the spinal column.
His keen eyes had detected the sinister dorsal fin of not one, but many sharks, all cutting towards one spot.
The nasal is large and pointed anteriorly and posteriorly in dorsal view.
The dorsal ground color in non-Panamanian specimens is brown, olive-brown, or dark brown.
The nasal is large (its length about 40 per cent of total length of skull), and pointed anteriorly and posteriorly in dorsal view.
The nasal is large, rounded anteriorly, and pointed posteriorly in dorsal view.
At night some individuals lacked a dorsal pattern, but by day many of these individuals developeddorsal stripes.
The sphenethmoid is completely ossified and pentagonal in dorsal view.
The nasal is large, robust, anteriorly truncate, but pointed posteriorly in dorsal view.
It has white flowers with red markings arranged in an orderly manner on the lower parts of the petals, especially on the dorsal petals.
Thus if the supernumerary pair arise from a point on the dorsal surface of the normal appendage, the two ventral surfaces of the extra pair will face each other.
It differs also from Galictis in having sixteen[305] instead of fourteen dorsal vertebrae.
The high dorsal fin has been much exaggerated in old drawings; it has been even represented as strong and sharpened at the end, so as to be capable of ripping open the belly of a Whale.
There are as many as seventeen or eighteendorsal vertebrae, the largest number in any Cetacean as far as is known.
The colour, too, is not widely different, being of a yellowish grey, but it lacks thedorsal stripe which distinguishes its relative.
The dorsal vertebrae vary from thirteen to sixteen.
There are fifteen dorsal vertebrae, and the orbit is {411} closed by bone.
The name of the animal is connected with the dorsal gland; the animal thus appeared to possess two navels.
A peculiarity of the Sloths is the enormous number of dorsal vertebrae.
Freminville, would seem to be a Ziphioid; it was described as having a very pointed beak, and as having the dorsal fin situated near the tail; such characters suggest a Mesoplodon.
The dorsalvertebrae again are not fused together; the hind-limbs are five-toed.
Gray of the British Museum described from the sea, off Margate, what he considered to be a new species of Porpoise, characterised by the presence on the dorsal fin of a row of stony tubercles.
The "beautiful sigmoid curve formed by the lumbar and dorsal vertebrae" is more pronounced in Man, but exists not only in the Anthropoids, but in other Apes.
Tarchanoff (1901) has injected luminous bacteria into the dorsal lymph sac of frogs with the result that the animals continued to glow for three to four days, especially about the tongue.
The dorsal reflecting layer is made up of cells containing numerous minute crystals of some purin base, either xanthin or urates, or both.
The photogenic organ of the firefly is made up of two kinds of cells, a dorsal mass of small cells several layers deep, the reflector layer, and a ventral mass of large cells with indistinct boundaries, the photogenic layer (Fig.
In Synanceia brachio there are in the dorsal fin thirteen barbs, each connected with two poison reservoirs.
In Scorpaena scrofa and other species of this family there are poison glands connected with the barbs in the dorsal and in some varieties in the caudal fin.
Perch family, abundant in England, about six inches long, with only one dorsal fin.
Entire dorsal and lateral surface of neck clear black to base of hairs, a few ochraceous specks visible on close scrutiny, particularly at sides near throat markings.
Entire dorsal surface of body and tail a fine grizzle of black and cream-buff, the individual hairs black with two or three cream buff rings.
Small brown flecks are present on the dorsal surfaces of the shanks; in some specimens these flecks tend to form a longitudinal stripe on the shank.
As noted in the preceding description of this subspecies, at night the dorsal markings are not evident in many living individuals, whereas by day the dorsal markings are prominent.
The dorsal pattern varies from nearly complete longitudinal lines to broken lines, fused into an X-shaped scapular mark or not.
The principal currents send into the network thus formed, minor branches, which having ramified in their turn among the principal parts of the organism, re-enter some main current to regain the dorsal vessel.
The double membranous folds thus formed on each side of the dorsal vessel are in the shape of a half moon, and separate from each other when this organ dilates; but the contrary movement taking place, the passage is closed.
The anterior or aortic portion of the dorsal vessels shows neither fan-shaped lateral expansions, nor orifices, and consists of a single membranous tube.
They are convex on the back, where the indentations of the leaf out of which they have been cut add to the resemblance, by appearing like the dorsal fins of the fish.
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