This expansion of the heels is assisted and increased by the simultaneous flattening and lateral expansion of the resilient horny frog, which crowds the bars apart.
A sinking of the heels and a flattening of the wings of the sole.
Very commonly they have undergone a change of figure, most frequently a flattening which reduces them to scales, as in the epidermis and the epithelium.
The blastopore now passes to the dorsal surface, and by the flattening of this surface a medullary plate is formed extending forwards from the blastopore (fig.
The formation of the central nervous system commences with the flattening of the dorsal surface of the embryo.
The peculiar flatteningout of the embryo over the yolk (vide p.
Flattening himself against the wall, he covered his lantern with his cloak, with a whispered caution to his followers as the window continued to give forth its low complaint.
Thus freed, she lapsed into the spectator, flattening her nose against the shop-windows or drifting lazily from knot to knot of discussion.
The composition is, however, much better seen by flattening out the whole.
They stood back against the wall, flattening themselves, and they stared, fascinated, at the slender stranger.
And the beast, flattening to the floor, crawled backwards, inch by inch; it was slavering, and there was a ravening madness in its eyes.
Gray has separated a genus, which he called Pteronura, on account of a flattened tail arising from a longitudinal ridge on each side, but thisflattening of the tail is common to all the genera more or less.
This character of enameled teeth on the snout would seem of more importance than the position of the gill-openings or even the flattening and expansion of the body.
Swimming like this, specialization for more and more rapid movement would mean flattening of the tail region and is extension into an at first not separately mobile median tail-fold.
The germ-layers become confluent, but, unlike the sturgeon, the flattening of the dorsal germ-ring does not permit the formation of a neurenteric canal.
But though, contrary to what one might expect, the edging or flattening of the skis may practically be disregarded as primary factors in a turn, they are, as we shall see, of the greatest importance as secondary ones.
B, at the same time weighting the toe of the left foot and slightly flattening that ski, which will then begin to point downwards and give the other more room to turn.
The principal factors, then, in the control and steering of the skis are the edging or flattening of them, the distribution of the weight on them, and the placing of them in certain positions in relation to each other.
The foregoing remarks are an explanation of how the edging or flattening of the ski can be made to help the side-slip; the next thing is to understand how the side-slip can be made to help the ski to turn sharply.
But this flattening should be merely momentary, and it is so difficult to make it so and instantly to edge the ski again that it is safer to leave it out altogether.
Edge it normally, kneel down on the front of it, and slide off by flattening the other (Fig.
Strictly speaking, a very slight flattening of the front ski hastens the start of an uphill swing from a traverse.
In order to side-slip straight downhill you simply stand with your skis horizontal and rather apart, and start by flattening them a little and throwing your weight well outwards, as if you wanted to go fast down the hill, not slowly.
And he had a curious frog-like trick of flattening his eyelids--as if in the act of swallowing a large beetle--which was the only outward and visible sign of emotion that he ever displayed.
At this point an ominous flattening became apparent in his lordship's eyelids, but these symptoms passed off when Mr. Heath sat down and indicated that he had no further questions to ask.
But here centering could not have been of any service in the wall arches, and the transverse arches are laid without flattening of the courses, though that arrangement might have been useful in their case.
It is therefore more probable that the flattening of the courses in the wall arches is simply a piece of careless workmanship.
The structural feature upon which this new variety is made is the unvarying plumpness of the body, making it almost spherical, except for a slight flattening dorso-ventrally.
That the excision of a large part of the septum may lead to flattening or deformity of the nose.
The object of all forms of operation is the flattening of the cone.
In the treatment of conical cornea by excision of the apex of the cone, it might facilitate the rapid closure of the wound and assist in flattening of the cornea.
The section produces some flattening of the corneal curvature at right angles to the line of the incision; this usually amounts to about two diopters.
There may be a little flattening of the side of the nose, but there is no disfigurement, and a few months afterwards it is difficult to detect any trace of the operation.
I have already described the accentuation of geotropic curvature during the fall, and a flattening of curvature during the rise of temperature (p.
The telescope also reveals very clearly that flattening at the poles which has already been spoken of.
This flattening is due to the very rapid spinning of the planet on its axis, a motion that will always cause a plastic body to bulge at the equator, and thus flatten at the poles.
The disc has been measured during a transit, and shows so little flattening as to indicate a slow rotation and the long day.
A similar deformation, with more pronounced flattening and backward pressure of the forehead, is shown on the crania which Jagor produced from a cave at Caramuan in Luzon.
Such flattening is found, however, not seldom among tribes who have the practice of binding children on hard cradle boards--chiefly among those families who keep their infants a long time on such contrivances.
There are modes of flattening which remind one of Peru.
The flattening sunrays made a kind of pink glow about the old judge's face, touching gently his bald head and his white whiskers.
He pitched forward and outward upon his face with his whiskers flattening in the street.
We have not risen much to-day, and the plain seems to be flattening out.
There are still mild differences of elevation, but generally speaking the plain is flattening out; no doubt we are rising slowly.
Instantly there was a sharp report, and a speeding bullet grazed his hair, flattening out against the stone.
To this it may be replied that the presence of such an appendage is as good as proved by a certain flattening of the vertebrae at the end of the tail, detected by Owen.
The direction of this flattening is from side to side, and therefore the tail-fin must have been vertical, like that of a fish.
Scott, flattening his nose against the window-pane to see whether it still hurt him.
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