Sentences with phrase «air bladders»
"air bladders" refers to a part of an animal's body that acts like a balloon and helps them float or control their buoyancy in water. Full definition
* Announcement of the rule came just days before a study, presented to the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine meeting in San Francisco, found that making sure that football helmets fit properly, and that those with air bladder linings are properly inflated, may be two of the simplest but most effective ways to minimize the risk of concussion and catastrophic brain injury in the sport.
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Underneath, the LR4 offers a fully independent suspension at either end, sprung and damped by air bladders that offer long suspension travel, and either automatic or manual height adjustment.
Unlike other fish, which inflate air bladders to adjust their buoyancy on the fly, sharks rely on a skeleton of cartilage and a liver filled with lighter - than - water oil to help beat gravity's pull.
Front multicontour seats contain electronically adjustable air bladders and offer numerous massage settings in addition to heating and cooling controls and 14 - way power positioning.
Tapered air bladder and lower pistons with a progressive design provide a smoother ride in comfort mode
Hysterectomies on parakeets, C - sections in iguanas, adrenal gland tumor removal in ferrets, and air bladder procedures on fish are just a few examples of procedures commonly performed by our North Coast doctors.
A single branch illustrating the leaflike structures and air bladders growing from a central stem.
They took measurements, checked the females for eggs, then «bonked them over the head, cut their air bladder and sunk them to the bottom of the lake,» Muhlfeld says, both to return the nutrients to the system and to keep from attracting grizzlies.
And Tiktaalik's lungs, which evolved from the air bladders fish use for respiration and buoyancy control, are housed in a sturdy overlapping rib cage, the better to buttress the animal's weight against gravity.
This research demonstrates that early land animals «with no obvious adaptations for hearing nonetheless could pick up sound waves aided by an air bladder [such as a lung],» says Jennifer Clack, a paleontologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who was not involved with the work.
We measured salmon by pinging sound waves off their air bladders twice per day, and simultaneously swept the river with a net, then compared that to data collected with SONAR.
Engage sport and an air bladder pushes it partway out.
After turning on the seat massager (yep, you can get one in the top - of - the - line F - 150 Platinum), we found that even under power, the engine doesn't make much more noise than the compressor that fills the seat's air bladders.
The base Mondeo Vignale has ten - way power adjustable seats, but for the full treatment — the 11 air bladders and the massage function you'll also have to pay extra, just like for the inflatable rear seatbelts.