Many fishes have outgrowthslike a series of pockets from the intestine.
These structures are outgrowths of the outer layer of the root (the epidermis), and are of very great importance to the living plant.
Agassiz, and showed that in Tornaria (the larva of Balanoglossus) a similar formation of body-cavities by pouch-like outgrowths of the archenteron took place.
The gill-slits were largely formed by outgrowths from the alimentary canal.
In the Cirripedia, however, they are vascular processes from the inner surface of the mantle or shell-fold, and in some Ostracoda they are outgrowths from the sides of the body.
These outgrowths vary much in their arrangement in the different groups.
Tentacles Filamentous outgrowths (in Hydra hollow) of the body-wall round the mouth.
The buds of Hydra arise as hollow outgrowths from the wall of the column, probably in a definite order and position in each species.
The articular nodosities in chronic rheumatoid arthritis are actual osseous enlargements of, or outgrowths from, the articular surfaces, forming part of them, immovable and conserving more or less their form.
A careful examination will discover not only the great rigidity of the spine, and as it were fusion en masse of its joints, but in these persons the bony outgrowths may be felt.
Conscience and the moral sense are outgrowths of sympathy; therefore, that which distinguishes man from the lower orders of life originated in and has been developed through the female organization.
When developmental, originating in childhood, the outgrowths may be found on any part of the skeleton, and upon many and generally symmetric parts at the same time, as is shown in Figure 248.
Human horns are anomalous outgrowths from the skin and are far more frequent than ordinarily supposed.
Among the benign bone tumors are exostoses--homologous outgrowths differing from hypertrophies, as they only involve a limited part of the circumference.
The buds are not direct outgrowths of the body-wall, but are formed on the courses of hollow out growths of the base or body-wall, called solenia.
In Clavularia and its allies each outgrowth contains several solenia, and the outgrowths may take the form of flat expansions, composed of a number of solenial tubes felted together to form a lamellar surface of attachment.
Such outgrowths are called stolons, and a stolon may be simple, i.
These outgrowths are due to displacement of bone-forming elements, either at the time of the original injury or as a result of forcible efforts at reduction.
The vertebræ are fixed to one another by outgrowths of bone which bridge across the intervertebral spaces, and there is a slight lateral deviation to the left in the mid-dorsal region.
Osteophytic outgrowths form around the joint and lead to fixation or locking.
The discs disappear, osteophytic outgrowths develop at the margins of the bodies and in connection with the transverse processes, and bridge across the space between neighbouring vertebræ (Fig.
Primitive deer and oxen begin in the Miocene, and seem to have an earlier representative in certain American animals (Protoceras), of which the male has a pair of blunt outgrowths between the ears.
In the bed of the sea which covered the site of London in the Eocene are found the remains of a toothed bird (Odontopteryx), though the teeth are merely sharp outgrowths of the edge of the bill.
Some flow or roll slowly along like tiny drops of oil on an inclined surface; others develop minute outgrowths of their substance, like fine hairs, which beat the water as oars do.
Wattles, the fleshy outgrowths from the underside of the throat.
Barb#, one of the lateral outgrowths of the shaft of a feather, forming the vane.
Where do you find outgrowths of the skin which might increase the air-absorbing surface?
Barbs, the delicate outgrowths of the shaft making up the vane.
The lungs are said to be outgrowths of the alimentary canal.
In Dipnoans (Lepidosiren and Protopterus) curious outgrowths arise from the ductus endolymphaticus and come to overlie the roof of the fourth ventricle, recalling the somewhat similar condition met with in certain Amphibians.
The side walls of this are thickened to form characteristic lobi inferiores, while the blind end develops glandular outgrowths (infundibular gland, fig.
Those colonies that were formed by English settlers were transplantedoutgrowths from a civilized social parent which in its turn had clearly evolved from the state of King John's time and the still cruder form it had under King Alfred.
Does this mean that the branches which bear respectively the various members of the several tribes are outgrowths of a single limb of the evolving animal tree?
Segments IX-XII inclusive contain certain sacs which depend from, and are formed as outgrowths of, the septa of those segments.
Although in adult Mammals the teeth are so intimately connected with the jaw as to appear outgrowths from it, this is not the case really.
Respecting one item in the foregoing--it has been said truly that the possession of a few or many true hairs as outgrowths from pits in the skin is alone sufficient to distinguish a Mammal from any other animal.
The lungs and liver are formed as special outgrowths from the digestive tube.
Vigour and vitality, predominant activity and the consequent disruptive changes, with their abundant by-products utilized in luxuriant outgrowths and brilliant colours, are probably important sources of variation.
Secondly, that the wings of the Palaeodictyoptera probably worked vertically only, and the two main wings were homologous with rudimentary wing-like outgrowthson each segment of the body.
While it is generally believed that the purpose of these spines was protective, yet it is possible that many of them were merely outgrowths which increased the area through which the respiratory function could be carried on.
The inner end is obliquely truncated and shows about ten sharp spines which do not appear to be articulated to the segment, but rather to be direct outgrowths from it.
The presence of the lateral outgrowths in these ancient specimens would seem to indicate that they are primitive features, and may have been inherited.
In the adult the endopodite is a mere vestige, while the flat outgrowths from the protopodite have become very large and bear setae.
Crustacea, that the two terminal endites corresponded to the exopodite and endopodite, and that the other endites and exites were outgrowths from the protopodite analogous to the epipodites of Malacostraca.
There seems to be no objection to retaining this interpretation, but with the meaning that both endopodite and exopodite are much reduced, and their functions transferred to numerous outgrowths of the protopodite.
These outgrowths have the appearance of, and might have been derived from, the pleural lobes of trilobites.
But the smooth surface of the sac is quickly covered with numbers of tiny tufts, which are really hollow outgrowths like the fingers of a glove (Figures 1.
Thus, for instance, in the craw fish they are large round cells, without any movement, equipped with stiff outgrowths like bristles (Figure 1.
It may produce special outgrowths for protective or ornamental purposes, such are hairs, nails, horns, &c.
By the formation of outgrowths or ingrowths from these surfaces further structures, consisting largely or entirely of cells directly derived from the surface epithelium, may be formed.
These organs were stated by Spengel to arise in Bonellia as outgrowths of the gut; but in Echiurus Hatschek (No.
Outgrowths homologous with those found by Braun have been detected by myself (No.
The former is probably to be found in peculiar outgrowths from the Malpighian bodies at the base of the testes.
These nerves are formed as paired outgrowths of a continuous band composed of two laminae, connecting the dorsal end of the incompletely closed medullary canal with the external epiblast.
According to the view of Remak and Koelliker the outgrowths from the ureter give rise to the whole of the tubuli uriniferi and the capsules of the Malpighian bodies, the mesoblast around them forming blood-vessels, etc.
Goette, who holds however that, though converted into cartilage independently of the transverse processes, they are formed in membrane as outgrowths of these processes.
The walls of a pair of outgrowths form the whole of the mesoblast.
In the adult Sturgeon these pouches unite to form a compact gland, but in the embryo they arise as a series of isolated outgrowths of the duodenum.
Urbantschitsch also holds that the first visceral cleft has nothing to do with the formation of the tympanic cavity and Eustachian tube, and that these parts are derived from lateral outgrowths of the oral cavity.
They appear as outgrowths from a slightly marked lateral ridge (fig.
Pig and Calf the thyroid body is formed as a pair of epithelial vesicles, which are developed as outgrowths of the walls of the first pair of visceral clefts.
The form of the fruit body, the difference and the nature of special outgrowths upon it--the appendages--are characteristic of the various genera.
In Dacryomyces only two outgrowths and two spores are produced.
A joint is said to lock when its movements are abruptly arrested by the coming together of bony outgrowths around the joint.
In thalloid forms fimbriate or lobed margins or outgrowths from the surface lead to the same result.
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