The dorsal spine has only a single cul-de-sac, while the pectoral spines have two.
The pectoral fins are reddish, the back is brown, and the sides are yellow, marbled with black.
Plotosus is capable of wounding only when the hand or foot is placed on its dorsal or pectoral spines.
They have an elongated body, without pectoral fins, and a naked skin, covered with a thick layer of viscid slime, as in the case of the eels.
The pectoralfins are large, and provided with a few detached rays, which perform the function of tactile organs; the ventral fins are situate on the breast.
Its poison-apparatus is situated at the base of the dorsal and pectoral spines.
Lift up the flap in front of one of the pectoral fins.
Note the large pectoral muscles which cover the breast and extend out into the arms, and which are so strong and highly developed in the sparrow.
Each praecava is formed by three veins, the jugular from the head, the branchial from the wing, and the pectoral from the pectoral muscles.
Such fish have the pectoral fins modified for a rather poor kind of locomotion on land, thus enabling them to move from pond to pond or from stream to stream.
Cut the pectoral muscles from the left side of the sternum, push back and pin to one side.
Note that the group of bones supporting the pectoral fin is attached to the back of the brain-case and makes up the shoulder girdle.
In the bird the most powerful muscles are these pectoral muscles, which move the wings in flight.
From the dorsal aorta a pair of arteries, the subclavian, are given off to the pectoral fins.
They cannot flap their long pectoral fins and do not truly fly; nevertheless they move swiftly through the air and thus escape their pursuers.
The pectoral fins, attached to the shoulder girdle, correspond to the arms.
The paired pectoral and ventral fins are ranged one on each side corresponding to the arms and legs of higher animals.
Lift the whole sternum, with the right pectoral muscle attached, to the left side of the pan and pin it down.
The pectoral fin or arm is fastened to a series of bones called the shoulder girdle.
Anterior to the anal fin are the ventral fins, while on the sides of the body back of the head in a line with the mouth are found the pectoral fins.
Note that the uppermost, the humerus, is attached to the pectoral girdle, while at its lower end it articulates with the radio-ulna.
In this respect, the gibbon approaches much nearer to man than the other anthropoids, but it is also more distinguished from him than the others by the excessive length of the arms, or, to be more exact, of the pectoral limbs.
In the case of three other anthropoids, which bend forward in walking, the pectoral limb is shorter than in the gibbon but longer than in man.
As the thoracic cavity is drawn by the diaphragm's descent towards the abdomen, so by the pectoral muscles is it raised upwards to the head.
In the Mussel a structure originates for the first time, which can be compared with a thoracic or pectoral cavity.
If pectoral and abdominal muscles are repeated in the face, so also must the anterior bones, ribs, and limbs be repeated.
Pectoral muscles and diaphragm stand opposite to each other, like limbs and trunk; the ribs are the limbs, the diaphragm the upper abdominal tunic or covering.
The pectoral tunic (mantle) usually elongates at the anal extremity into two tubes, respiratory tubes, through which the water is drawn in and thrust out or expelled.
The nose includes pectoral muscles, the mouth arthric muscles or those of the limbs.
In the act of respiration two orders of muscles are active, the proper-pectoral muscles, and the abdominal muscle, which has been displaced from the thorax, or the diaphragm.
Pectoral and abdominal muscles are ennobled in the muscles of the face.
It can thus move about as rapidly as in its usual position, by aid of its pectoral fins.
When preparing to do this it moves its head and thorax backwards, so that the pectoral spine is drawn out and rests on the edge of the sheath.
Bateman's Pectoral Drops were packaged in a more common "phial"--a tall and slender cylindrical bottle.
Nearly a decade more was to pass before Bateman's Pectoral Drops showed up in the midst of another general list, including cheese, and shoes, and stays.
Of Bateman's Pectoral Drops more divergent versions existed than of any of the others.
It will be remembered that 60 years earlier William Dicey, John Cluer, and Robert Raikes were the group of entrepreneurs who had aided Benjamin Okell in patenting the pectoral drops bearing Bateman's name.
As early as 1721, Bateman's Pectoral Drops were being regularly advertised in the London Mercury.
Bateman's Pectoral DROPS published at the Request of several Persons of Distinction from both Universities.
Just as for Bateman's Pectoral Drops and the Darby brand of British Oil, workers of many occupations solemnly swore that they had received benefit.
Cut away the ventral part of the pectoral girdle, to open pericardium.
Compare thepectoral with the pelvic limb and girdle.
The fore-limb (pectoral limb) consists of an upper arm bone, the humerus (hum.
The pectoral limb and girdle (Figure 4, Sheet 16) have only a very vague resemblance to the corresponding structures in the rabbit.
Note the large sub-cutaneous lymph spaces, the pelvic and pectoral girdles, and the anterior abdominal vein.
The pelvic girdle differs from the pectoral in most land vertebrata in being articulated with the vertebral column.
Behind the head, and in front of the fore fin (pectoral fin), are five gill slits (g.
There are several powerful pectoral muscles which run out from the shoulder and breast, and operate upon the upper end of the humerus, and with these the wing is lifted and the strokes are made during flight.
The wings are highly specialized members of the avicular organism, and hence differ in many important respects from the fore orpectoral limbs of the mammals.
Geoffroy considers that the external opening of the ear corresponds to the external opening of the gill-chamber, which lies between the operculum and the pectoral girdle.
In most other Vertebrates the pectoral girdle has shifted backwards along the vertebral column, by a "metastasis" (Geoffroy) similar to that by which the pelvic fins in many fish have shifted up close to the pectoral girdle.
In Lepidosiren, whose skeleton resembles the archetype in many ways, the pectoral girdle is likewise attached to the occipital segment.
Owen's reasons for considering thepectoral girdle and the fore-limb part of the occipital vertebra are as follows.
This being so, their supporting elements, the sternum and the ribs, must have moved with them, and are hence to be found in front of the pectoral girdle.
But he is immediately met by the difficulty that this complex of bones is situated in front of the pectoral girdle, whereas the sternum in higher Vertebrates lies behind the pectoral girdle.
In the same way the hyoid apparatus is part and parcel of the parietal vertebra, and the pectoral girdle and fore-limbs part of the occipital vertebra.
In fish the pectoral girdle is slung to the skull by means of the post-temporal bone (supra-scapula, according to Owen) which abuts on the occipital arch.
Pectoral girdle very small or absent, wing absent, only an indication in Dinornis dromioides.
An important arrangement has been adopted by the inventor, which he calls the pectoral cord, which by its automatic action assumes the functions of the pectoral muscle of the bird.
Upon being run down an incline the envelope will be inflated by the pressure of the air, and the wing arms raised to that point where their further elevation is restrained by the pectoral cord.
It is from four to five inches long and has a dorsal fin as sharp as a knife and directed toward the tail, and pectoral fins following the same direction; these would admit of entrance, but would interfere with extraction.
Reichel and Anderson mention a living parasitic monster, the inferior trunk of one body proceeding from the pectoral region of the other.
In the right pectoral and posterior aspect of the right axillary region, and over the buttocks, the affected skin hung in heavy pendulous flaps.
On the fifth day the line of demarcation extended to the spine of the scapula, laying bare the bone and exposing the acromion process and involving the pectoral muscles.
Lee mentions a woman of thirty-five with four mammae and four nipples; she suckled with the pectoral and not the axillary breasts.
The pectoralarch is generally attached to the skull, and the entire margin of the upper jaw is formed by the premaxillary.
The pectoral fins, which are large and broad and united to the sides of the body and head, give a somewhat rhombic form to these fishes.
They have sharp pectoral spines with which they inflict painful wounds.
A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone.
It has very strong Pectoral fins which it uses like feet when on land, and it will even climb trees to catch the insects which it eats.
And those things that look like wings are simply very large Pectoral fins, which can support them for awhile in the air.
Pectoral crosses for the dignitaries of the church are of course not uncommon; not only priests, however, but every Russian man, woman or child carries a small cross, more or less ornamental.
One is a jewel or pectoral worn suspended from the neck by bishops, and is an object on which much care and rich decoration are lavished.
They have large pectoral fins, but are not known to possess the power of supporting themselves in the air like the "flying fish" which belong to other genera.
The armlike pectoral fins are used for holding on to stones or seaweed.
Polynemoid fish have free filaments at the humeral arch below the pectoral fins, which Guenther says are organs of touch, and to be regarded as detached portions of the fin; in some the filaments or threads are twice as long as the fish.
The pectoral fins are developed into regular legs, with which the fish hops or leaps along the mud flats .
Various fishes which have the power of sustaining themselves for a time in the air by means of their large pectoral fins.
They lead a somewhat sedentary life at the bottom of the sea, moving sluggishly by undulations of the pectoral fins which form a large part of the flat body.
The upper parts are of a bluish color, the lower parts whitish, a large black spot at the base of the pectoral fins.
The doctor said that thePectoral saved my darling's life.
Ayer's Cherry Pectoralwas tried in small and frequent doses, and, in less than half an hour, the little patient was breathing easily.
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Saved My Life, and also the life of my little son.
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Should be kept constantly at hand, for use in emergencies of the household.
My children have repeatedly taken Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for Coughs and Croup.
Detach a fore-limb with the remaining parts of the pectoral girdle.
Cut through the coracoids and clavicles on each side, close to the base of the arm, and carefully remove this part of the pectoral girdle and sternum so as to show the heart lying underneath.
Each systemic arch gives rise to an artery which branches into:-- (i) A scapular artery to the pectoral girdle.
They have a medium dorsal fin, and the pectoral flippers are about two-thirds longer than the breadth.
The other characteristics of the group arepectoral mammae and hairy moustaches.
Mammae, eight--four pectoral and four inguinal, as usual in the genus.
The female has six mammae--two pectoraland four ventral.
Hodgson may have overlooked thepectoral mammae when he noted the number.
The female has two pectoral and two inguinal mammae.
The young are sometimes caught with their mothers, and are said to cling by holding on by the mouth to the base of the parent's pectoral fins.
The areas of white hairs in grisescens are in broad patches on the pectoral region, while in pullus, a white stripe passes from the pectoral region to the inguinal region in both males and females.
The word bimaculatus, signifying two-spotted, alludes to two remarkable and conspicuous oval spots of dark purplish brown or red, situated one on each side of the body, just behind the pectoral fin.
How easily and gracefully it glides around its new abode, moving along by an undulation of the edges of the broad pectoral fins, a movement which Yarrell describes as something between flying and swimming.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pectoral" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
