Indeed, in man the region occupied by the pectorals is very broad; it is a wide surface turned directly forward.
In quadrupeds, this region of the pectorals is narrowed.
This division of the pectorals certainly complicates the nomenclature of these muscles; nevertheless, it introduces no insuperable difficulty from the mnemonic point of view.
Tertio," Conseil said, "the subbrachians, whose pelvic fins are attached under the pectorals and hang directly from the shoulder bone.
But nothing surpasses the golden pectorals inlaid with precious stones.
On one of the pectorals the cartouche of Usertesen III.
To include all the respiratory muscles, I exercised those of the neck and throat, the abdomen and back, as well as the pectorals and the muscles about the scapulae.
When Coughs were slight, guarding against further Cold, and the Use of mild Pectorals and warm Drinks, removed them.
Beneath the pectorals are three detached rays; both jaws and front of the lower palate are armed with fine velvety teeth.
Suckers (Lepidogaster), where the pectorals and ventrals form two disks.
The pectorals of Prince Khâmoîsît and the Lord Psaru,now in the Louvre, but which were originally placed in the tomb of the Apis in the time of Ramses II.
Chelidonichthys kumu is a common species in Japan, a large fish with pectorals of a very brilliant variegated blue, like the wings of certain butterflies.
Almost all the species of Achirus are banded with black and the pectorals are very small or wanting altogether.
The young garpikes move very slowly, and seem to float quietly, save an exceedingly rapid vibration of the pectorals and the tip of the tail.
It does not, however, appear in Cope's figures, none of his specimens having the pectorals perfect.
The capelin (Mallotus villosus) closely resembles the eulachon, differing mainly in its broader pectoralsand in the peculiar scales of the males.
The pectorals have the lower rays unbranched, and the ventrals are in advance of the pectorals, and have each a spine and five rays.
The pectorals are attached directly to this without the intervention of actinosts, but in the distal third, according to Dr.
Podopteryx, from the Italian Miocene, with small pectoralsand very large ventrals, perhaps belongs also to this family, but its real affinities are unknown.
These walk along like toads on the sea-bottoms; the ventrals, being jugular, act as fore legs and the pectorals extend behind them as hind legs.
In an individual thirty-five millimetres long the anus is situated between the origin of the pectorals; in one twenty-five millimetres long it lies between the pectorals and ventrals.
At such times the pectorals are extended laterally and then pressed to the sides, beginning with the upper rays.
In the aquarium they lie at the bottom or at various depths in the water, their axes making various angles with the horizontal, their pectorals folded to their sides.
In swimming the pectorals are brought forward upper edge foremost.
When swimming rapidly the pectorals are folded to the sides, and their locomotion is then similar to that of a salamander--by the motion of the tail.
The pectorals are also almost exclusively used when quietly rising in the water.
When it moves horizontally for some distance the pectorals are usually pressed to the sides, the propelling being done largely by the tail very much after the manner of a salamander, which it resembles.
Pectorals are usually in the form of a pylon or shrine, in the middle of which is often a scarab, the emblem of transformation and immortality, adored by the goddesses Isis or Nephthys.
Somewhat similar to the pectorals are jewels in the shape of conventional hawks.
Or what would be the proper inference, were I to find one of the many-thorned ichthyolites of the Lower Old Red Sandstone with the spines of its pectorals similarly fixed on cubes of lignite?
I found frequent traces, during my exploratory labors in Orkney, of the dorsal and ventral fins of this ichthyolite; but no trace whatever of the pectorals or of the caudal fin.
As soon as it is in the water it begins its motion, and the body with the pectorals again begins to vibrate.
In the earliest species known, from the Devonian, the ventral fins are almost as large as the pectorals and nearly midway between pectorals and anal.
When the tail is in motion the pectoralsseem in a state of rapid vibration.
Dean regards this as the most primitive of the sharks, and the position of the pectorals and ventrals certainly lend weight to Balfour's theory that they were originally derived from a lateral fold of skin.
Acanthoessus, with a spine in each paired fin and no other rays, might be a specialization of this type or fin, and Climatius, with rows of spines in place of pectorals and ventrals, might be held to bear out the same idea.
It is, however, a true ray, laying its eggs in egg-cases, and with the pectorals extending on the snout.
It is the body of the fish which vibrates, the pectorals projecting farthest having the greatest amplitude of movement.
When the action of the tail ceases the pectorals and ventrals are spread out wide and held at rest.
In all three of these the pectorals are narrow with a single basal bone, and the nostrils, as in the Dipneustans, are below the snout.
The greatly enlarged pectoralsform a sort of shoulder in front alongside of the gill-openings, which has suggested the bend of the angel's wing.
The pectorals of Lepisosteus originate in the same way.
In the Permian species the pectorals are enormous.
The sea-devils, Mobulidae, are the mightiest of all the rays, characterized by the development of the anterior lobe of the pectoralsas a pair of cephalic fins.
They live close on the mud in the bottom of sluggish waters, moving the pectorals fan-fashion.
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