I recognised them at once as the palatal teeth of a fossil fish called "Lepidotus," common in our own oolitic and wealden strata, and in rocks of that age all over the world.
They undoubtedly are the palatal teeth of the fossil extinct ganoid fish Lepidotus.
The upper jaw in the Dipnoan is formed ofpalatal elements attached directly to the skull, and the lower jaw contains no true dentary bones.
The skull is autostylic, the upper jaw being made as in the Chimaera of palatal elements joined to the quadrate and fused with the cranium, without premaxillary or maxillary.
The Dipnoans among Teleostomi retain the shark-like condition of the upper jaw, made of palatal elements, which may be, as in the Chimaera, fused with the cranium.
I then took the palatal measurement, from the outer edge of the border in which the incisors are set to the anterior inside edge of the brain-hole, or foramen magnum, and I find that this standard is sufficiently accurate, and is 5.
The palatal measurement is 12 inches, which, according to my formula, would give only 10 ft.
The palatal measurement, which is the test I proposed for ascertaining the length of the skeleton, is 12.
The horny plates grow from a fibrous and vascular matrix, which covers the palatal surface of the maxillae, and sends out plate-like processes, one of which penetrates the base of each blade.
In order to prevent muscular contraction of the palatal muscles, which may grip the end of the catheter and so prevent its entrance into the orifice of the Eustachian tube, the patient should be told to breathe quietly and keep the eyes open.
When the beak has entered the post-nasal space, the irritation may cause such intense contraction of the palatal muscles that the point of the catheter may become fixed and its movement rendered impossible.
On the basis of palatal structure, the Fringillinae and Geospizinae are combined with the Emberizinae, the name Fringillinae being maintained for the subfamily.
This r is a kind of palatal blade continuant, and its use should be avoided, as it is generally held to be affected.
In Sus cristatus the palatalwidth is contained nearly seven times in the same distance.
I can entertain no doubt that the angular groups of palatal teeth figured by Agassiz and the Russian geologists as those of a supposed Placoid termed the Ctenodus, are in reality groups of the palatal teeth of Dipterus.
It interested me to find, from Mr. Clouston's specimens that the palatal grinders of this recent fish of Orkney very nearly resemble those of its Dipterus of the Old Red Sandstone.
The same piece as in the preceding figure, seen from the palatal side.
Chapter IV of the same book is most important, for palatal obturators are therein spoken of for the first time.
He finds himself able to produce any sound--labial, dental, lingual, nasal or palatal or any combination of these sounds in any language.
Correlated with this peculiarity the maxilla usually has the tomia sinuated, and is generally concave, and smaller and narrower than the mandible, which is also concave to receive the palatal knob.
The χ was attracted into a palatal spirant by the following dental, and the dental itself was then palatalized.
These sounds lost their palatal quality too early to cause breaking: cf.
The breaking was probably due to a premature lifting of the tongue under the influence of a following high vowel or a palatal (or velar) consonant.
K, in southern Gaul, did not take the palatal pronunciation before front vowels: skërnon ＞ Pr.
Before or during the literary period final n´ or n´s lost its palatal quality in many dialects: ingĕnium ＞ genh gen.
The breaking was probably due to a premature lifting of the tongue under the influence of a following high vowel or a palatal or velar consonant, or to a premature partial closure of the lips in anticipation of a following labial.
Whether j in Sanskrit represents an original palatal sonant check or an original palatal sonant flatus can generally be determined by a reference to Zend, which represents the former by j, the latter by z.
It may also be kept in place by atmospheric adhesion, in which case the palatal vault is included, and the vacuum chamber is utilized in the palatal portion to increase the adhesion.
For the mechanical correction of palatal defects causing imperfection of deglutition and speech, which comes distinctly within the province of the prosthetic dentist, the vulcanite base produces the best-known apparatus.
To my amazement, I found myself rewarded a hundredfold for the little that I had been able to do.
Sickening to think of," she said, "when you look at that.
There was a message for her in Ovid's letter--expressed in the friendliest terms.
Ovid and the doctor were walking slowly away from them, and were just passing Teresa and the child.
He avowed his doubts of the circumstance just related, although it was, on the authority of a lady, a circumstance occurring in real life!
Our charming guest was on the sofa, and the hideous old nurse was fanning her, when I had the honour of seeing them just now.
He bowed profoundly, in homage to the well-preserved remains of a fine woman.
I always send messages to Miss Minerva; and Miss Minerva never sends any messages back to me.
If you ever looked cheerful in your life," he said to the man, "look cheerful now.
A sheet of paper lay near the cheque-book, covered with calculations divided into two columns.
This refers to a twofold mode of pronouncing the Palatal and Lingual consonants, whether plain or aspirated.
In none of the other languages in which the word is used (except the Welsh alone), has the final palatal been aspirated.
The final i is sounded short; but before a Palatal or a Lingual, not quiescent, it loses its sound, and only qualifies that of the following consonant.
When the mouth is shut the quadrate is directed backwards, and carrying back the pterygoid and transpalatine pulls at the maxillae and causes its palatal face, to which the poison teeth are attached, to lie back along the roof of the mouth.
The palatal process is continuous in front, with a large bone, the maxillae, which, like the palatine, consists of vertical and horizontal portions.
On the ventral surface of the cranium there are generally largepalatal vacuities.
The palatal vacuities are large and the nares are separate.
The junction line between the palatal and facial portions is called the =alveolar border=, and along it are attached the canine, premolar, and molar teeth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palatal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
