Well, all the rodent animals have these teeth formed in just the same way.
Yet when one comes to look at its front teeth he sees at once that instead of having flat, sharp edges, like a chisel, they are pointed; and these teeth do not continue to grow all through life, like those of the rodent animals.
It happens now and then that a rodent animal meets with an accident and breaks off one of its front teeth.
Only two pairs of front teeth are developed in the rodent animals, and as the "eye" teeth are wanting there is always a gap in each jaw between these and the grinders.
But then, in the rodent animals, these teeth never stop growing, so that as fast as they are worn from above they are pushed up again from below.
Yet we only have to look at its front teeth to see that it really is a rodent after all.
These are formed just like the front teeth of the rodent animals, and grow as fast as they are worn away.
In fact, it is the largest of all the rodent animals.
Rodent cancer may originate on the scalp, but usually spreads thither from the face.
The face is the commonest seat of rodent cancer (Volume I.
Portions of the alæ nasi may be lost from injury, or from lupus, syphilis, or rodent cancer.
Destruction of Bones of Left Orbit, caused by Rodent Cancer.
Sometimes they follow suppuration in the middle ear and mastoid or in the frontal sinus, and epithelioma and rodent cancer that has ulcerated and become infected after spreading from the face towards the vertex.
Defn: A burrowing rodent (Spalax typhlus), native of Russia and Asia Minor.
Defn: A peculiar gregarious burrowing rodent (Haplodon rufus), native of the coast region of the Northwestern United States.
Defn: Any small jumping rodent of the genus Dipus, esp.
Defn: A large burrowing South American rodent (Lagostomus trichodactylus) allied to the chinchillas, but much larger.
Defn: A small European rodent (Eliomys nitela), allied to the dormouse.
Defn: A rodent of the genus Lepus, having long hind legs, a short tail, and a divided upper lip.
As all rodent animals depend solely on their beautifully-formed and chisel-shaped fore teeth for their subsistence, the unfortunate squirrel is unable to eat, and dies miserably of hunger.
In all the rodent animals the front teeth are four in number, flat, slightly curved, and edged like a chisel.
They were still as fast, still with the same anti-rodent disposition, but they were no longer small.
Nor rats, for vines were stripped in a manner that no rodent could manage.
Moreover, the weasels had made the homes temporary centers from which they raided other rodent habitations in the vicinity.
The latter says that his captive male, from Gainesville, Florida, customarily bit its rodent prey at the base of the skull and used the feet to manipulate the live prey.
Changes during growth in the skull of the rodent Otospermophilus grammurus beecheyi.
Rodent slaughter commenced this chapter and suicide ends it; this puts me in mind of the Marriage Service, which commences "Dearly" and ends with "amazement.
I had therefore to devise some means of keeping them down, or they would so have multiplied as to eat up everything that to a rodent was toothsome, and that is nearly everything green, even to the furze bushes.
A new species of heteromyidrodent from the Middle Oligocene of northeastern Colorado with remarks on the skull.
The irregular scars from lacerated wounds characteristic of the skinks bear little similarity to rodent bites, in which the long, sharp-edge incisors make slit-like punctures.
Once a rodent stirred beneath her feet, and she froze--like a hunting wolf--in her tracks.
Then the little woods people--marten and ermine and rodent and such other small forest creatures that--who can say?
The saltatorial rodent Dipodomys: The functional and comparative anatomy of its muscular and osseous systems.
No remains of Dikkomys have been identified in the extensiverodent fauna of the John Day beds of the lower Miocene of Oregon, although entoptychines are abundant in these deposits.
An additional specimen of the rodent Dikkomys from the Miocene of Nebraska.
A rodent fauna from the later Cenozoic beds of southwestern Idaho.
Is a small rodent found in the south of Russia and also in parts of America.
Is a rodent known in natural history as the coypu, about half the size of a beaver, and when unhaired has not more than half, generally less, the depth of fur, which is also not so close.
A very prolific rodent of the amphibious class obtained from Canada and the United States, similar in habit to the English vole, with a fairly thick and even brown underwool and rather strong top dark hair of medium density.
Why when hare-like and rabbit-like animals were formed to live on the Savannahs of La Plata, were they produced on the peculiar Rodent type of S.
The rodent city was a glowing expanse of shallow, crystalline domes, set among odd, scrub trees and bushes.
He started to run, away from those glittering rodent eyes.
The proximal end of the femur of a large rodent has already been recognised by Roth, and compared with the extinct Megamys.
