The two rami of the mandibles are reduced to a simple palp, while the blade has assumed its full importance.
They are composed of two basal joints, and two rami with swimming hairs, each two-jointed.
The maxillipeds, or the two anterior pairs at any rate, lose their ambulatory function, cutting plates develop on the inner side of their basal joints, and the two rami persist as small appendages on their outer side.
In this figure maxillae and the two rami of the maxilliped are seen immediately behind the mandible md.
They are all biramous, though the two rami are not as yet jointed.
Tot rami quot arbores=--So many branches, so many trees.
Thus the mandibular rami could change the angle of inclination towards each other, as well as their plane with reference to the vertical axis.
The Selenosteidae are "Arthrothoraci with jaws studded with cuspidate teeth; the mandibular rami rounding out anteriorly or presenting diverging tips, bearing teeth in the symphysis.
Cryptotis mexicana (Coues) The San Josecito collection contains 22 rami of a species of Cryptotis.
The rami of San Josecito specimens closely resemble those of C.
A part of this material, on loan to the University of Kansas from the California Institute of Technology, contains 26 rami and one rostrum of soricid insectivores.
Little difference may be seen between the rami of C.
The horizontal rami of the dentaries are the same.
None of the rami from the cave differs appreciably from those of the subnubilus group of Cratogeomys castanops, a group of small subspecies including planifrons, subnubilus, rubellus and peridoneus.
Nevertheless, the two rami mentioned above are significantly larger than in adult males of modern Heterogeomys and are especially larger than in females.
Claws and fangs are developed on the branches or rami of the parapodia, not on the end of the axis or corm.
Such chelate rami or limb-branches are independently developed in Crustacea and in Arachnida, and are carried by somites of the body which do not correspond in position in the two groups.
It may be pointed out that the most radical difference presented in this list is that between appendages consisting of the corm alone without rami (Onychophora) and those with more or less developed rami (the rest of the Arthropoda).
Its jointing (segmentation) may be retained, but its rami disappear (Podophthalmous Crustacea).
The mandibular somite bears a pair of gnathobasic hemignaths without rami or palps, and is followed by two jaw-bearing somites (maxillary and labial).
In all cases the appendages primarily develop ramior branches which form the limbs, the primitive axis or corm being reduced and of insignificant size.
The Cirri are short and extremely much flattened: the three anterior pairs have their rami unequal in length by two or three segments; the posterior edges of their pedicels are fringed by tufts of extremely fine hairs.
Stroemia; in some specimens the two rami of the fourth pair were unequal in length; in some, nearly all the cirri on the lower or attached side were shorter than those on the upper side.
First and second pairs short, with the rami in each unequal in length by about four segments; on both rami in the second cirrus, and in the shorter ramus of the first cirrus, there are some coarsely pectinated spines.
Third pair with the rami one third longer than those of the second pair.
Rami of first cirrus hardly more than one third as long as the rami of the second cirrus, which latter rami are unequal in length by only two segments; the posterior ramus being the longer one.
On the lower segments in both rami of all the limbs, there is a single spine.
Second cirrus, with the anterior ramus slightly thicker than the posterior ramus: a few of the basal segments of both ramiare protuberant, and thickly clothed with spines.
In the fourth cirrus there is no trace of this peculiar structure, the rami being equal in length and strength.
Cumingii: they are 1/500th of an inch in diameter, and about as thick as one of the lower segments in the rami of the sixth cirrus.
The muscles running into the pedicels of the cirri, cross each other on the ventral surface of the thorax; the muscles within the rami are attached to the upper segments of the pedicels.
Outer maxillae with the inner bristles divided into two groups; segments of the posterior cirri extremely numerous, each with one pair of main spines; inner rami of the fifth and sixth cirri rudimentary.
Spines on the protuberant segments of both rami of both cirri, coarsely and doubly pectinated.
The anterior rami of the second and third cirri are thicker, and more thickly clothed with spines, than the posterior rami, to perhaps a greater degree than in I.
These fine medullated nerves form the system of white rami communicantes, and have since been called by Langley the preganglionic nerves.
The bones of the lower jaw are not united at the symphysis, but are held together by strong fibrous bands; the two rami are very much rounded and arched outwards; there are no teeth.
Nevertheless, it is remarkable that his own brother, Rami (R.
On examination after death, the rami of the ischium were found "little more than half an inch asunder.
A moderate estimate reckons the Chet Ramis at about five thousand souls, the religious force of the sect being represented by the Chet Rami ascetics, who go about making their gospel known and living on alms.
There are the four doors of the Chet Rami sanctuary.
The cast of the interior shows, rather faintly, the exopodites of the right side of the thorax and of the left side of the cephalon, and, still more faintly, the caudal rami and a few pygidial endopodites.
The relation of the appendifer, coxopodite, and two rami is here shown diagrammatically (fig.
The caudal rami of Neolenus were evidently sensory, and the animal was prepared to go in either direction.
Two caudal rami project a little distance beneath the posterior margin of the dorsal shield.
Mandible The mandibular ramiof Captorhinus are strongly constructed.
If the jaw were at almost any angle but maximum depression, the greatest component of force would be mediad, pulling the rami together and not upward.
Most snakes have a longitudinal groove on the chin (mental groove) to allow for the distension caused by the lateral movements of the rami of the lower jaw.
The anterior rami terminate at about the mid-level of the orbit, and the medial rami articulate firmly with the anterolateral corner of the otic capsule.
The posterior rami are short; the zygomatic rami of all species, except taurinus, extend slightly more than one-half of the distance to the maxillary.
In correlation with the great breadth of the posterior part of the cranium, the rami of the mandibles diverge widely posteriolaterally and the angular processes are remarkably elongated.
In this region the membrane is found to adhere laterally to the rami of the ischium and pubes; whilst along the median perinaeal line the two sacs of which the membrane is composed unite, as in the scrotum, and form an imperfect septum.
Rami Methodo, which he published under the pseudonym, Mildapettus 1580, was aimed at Digby's De Duplici Methodo.
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