Antennae not hooked, the club formed into a long, slender, fusiform arch.
In the former case it approaches the spherical shell, from which it is derived; in the latter case it becomes almost fusiform or cylindrical.
It has the typical animal of the /Buccinidae/, and a fusiform shell white to brownish in color, and three to five inches in length.
It is a small fusiform shell, with many prominent longitudinal ribs and a produced anterior canal.
This huge mollusk has a symmetrically fusiform shell, with whorls obtusely ridged and armed with large rounded nodes.
It has a typically symmetrical, fusiform shape, with gracefully rounded whorls, and is spirally but not deeply grooved.
This muscle, fusiform in shape, arises at its upper part from the external surface of the inferior extremity of the femur, then its tendon passes into a groove hollowed on the external tuberosity of the tibia.
In the horse it covers, to a great extent, the tibialis anticus, so that it is the latter which forms the large fusiform prominence especially noticeable in the middle region, to which the contour of the anterior surface of the leg is due.
A minute smooth rodlike or fusiform structure found in the tissues of many Turbellaria.
The two conjugated cells of the fusiform body are generally unequal; the one is a cylinder as long as it is broad, the other is disciform, and its length is only equal to half its breadth.
Later on this isolated protoplasm is gradually altered, separating into somewhat regular ovoid or fusiform granules, which have, to a certain extent, the appearance of spores in an ascus, but they seem to be incapable of germination.
J] After some days a little obtuse tube is protruded through the epispore, bearing at its apex long fusiform bodies, which are the sporules of the first generation.
Afterwards long elliptical sporules of the second generation are produced on short pedicels by the conjugated fusiform bodies of the first generation.
Shorter fusiformsporidia are by no means uncommon, varying in the number of septa, and in constriction at the joints in different species.
The spores in Prosthemium may be said in some sort to resemble compound Hendersonia, being fusiform and multiseptate, often united at the base in a stellate manner.
From the first these two processes are applied firmly one to the other by their extremities; they increase in size, become clavate, and constitute together a fusiform body placed across the two conjugated filaments.
Defn: A minute smooth rodlike or fusiform structure found in the tissues of many Turbellaria.
Defn: Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.
Spores= elongate, fusiform (in some species brown), plants with a slimy envelope.
When the whole circumference of an artery has been weakened, the tension of the blood causes the walls to dilate uniformly, so that a fusiform or tubular aneurysm results.
All varieties of aneurysm occur in the aorta, the fusiform being the most common, although a sacculated aneurysm frequently springs from a fusiform dilatation.
Innominate aneurysm# may be of the fusiform or of the sacculated variety, and is frequently associated with pouching of the aorta.
Sacculated aneurysm, as compared with the fusiform variety, tends to rupture and also to cure by the formation of laminated clot; natural cure is sometimes all but complete when extension and rupture occur and cause death.
As a rule a fusiform aneurysm contains fluid blood, but when the intima is roughened by disease, especially in the form of calcareous plates, shreds of clot may adhere to it.
Fusiform rust, caused by Cronartium fusiforme, is one of the most important diseases on southern pines.
Later, they appear mostly solitary and at rest, coiled within a fusiform mass of semi-liquid granular matter resulting from the degradation of the muscular substance.
Cornil found the seminal ducts separated by numerous round orfusiform cells.
The oesophagus is usuallyfusiform or spindle-shaped, being constricted at those portions at which it is normally slightly constricted.
Gills= distant, composed of a mucilaginous membrane, which can be readily separated into two plates, continuous at the edge which is acute and powdered with the blackish fusiform spores.
Achenes fusiform or compressed; pappus of 5 or fewer thin nerveless paleae, alternating with rough bristly awns, or these wanting.
The branching Larkspur has a fusiform or tap root, as shown in fig.
Spores of Bilimbia trachona to illustrate the several-celled, hyaline, fusiformor dactyloid type.
An elongated, fusiform section of the vomer is visible on the inferior surface of the beak at the middle for a distance of 158 mm.
This convexity is narrowed at both ends, or, in other words, is fusiform in shape.
On the other hand, those skulls known or believed to be from adult males have the mesirostral ossification enormously developed, a deep prenarial basin, and fusiform teeth with closed roots and a diameter of from 25 to 30 mm.
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