Sentences with phrase «flap of skin»

The younger dog had a huge flap of skin torn off the side of the dog, left hanging like a loose curtain.

Sometimes it is recommend if the baby has a high palate, a tight frenulum or a tongue tie (frenulum is the stringy flap of skin under the tongue) or other oral anomaly making latching difficult.

Jesus Christ Lizard - gallego: Flaps of skin on long toes enable this spectacular lizard to run across water.

But real dragons — gliding lizards of the genus Draco — form their «wings» from flaps of skin stretched over elongated ribs.

There will be a small flap of skin at the base of the ear, this flap is folded back when taping.

The small flap of skin in the front under the tongue may not allow the tongue to move forward and suckle properly.

Gliding is achieved by this animal by launching off the tops of trees and extending flaps of skin stretched from arms to legs: once they have launched themselves into the air they are highly manuverable while in flight.

The inelasticity of a callous compared to the surrounding skin means that one is more likely get things like «flappers», wherein a large flap of skin is ripped free from a palm or finger, or «jug rash» which is basically soreness caused by skin folding over on itself when climbing on large holds on overhanging routes.

Signs include blisters, loose flaps of skin and red, ulcerated patches.

Given enough time forcing this new preed of dog to survive in a tree canopy I think we would see some significant adaptations that may indeed include flaps of skin that enables them to at first glide which could adapt even further over time.

He then carved flaps of skin from each of Nelson's shoulders, flipping the free ends up to Nelson's cheeks.

Britz wants to disqualify the species on the grounds that the female anglerfish is too big, but Pietsch sticks up for the little guy: «He's not just a degenerate flap of skin.»

Last spring Laura Murphy, then 28 years old, went to a doctor to find out if a harmless flap of skin she had always had on the back of her neck was caused by a genetic mutation.

She had it brought to the surface and found it had two flaps of skin running along much of its body.

The male foreskin — an unassuming flap of skin eagerly discarded in some cultures — has taken center stage in recent debates over HIV prevention.

The dewlap is the extra flap of skin and fatty tissue under the chin of your bunny.

Over time the heavy flaps of skin can hang down over eyes, obscure vision and cause the eyelids to roll inward, scratching the cornea and causing intense irritation and potential blindness.

Each worm has two «wings» — flaps of skin on the main body along much of its length.

We know how he earned it — it was even caught on camera — a 2007 Brooks falls skirmish that left him with a gruesome injury — a large flap of skin was ripped down his side, like peeled skin from a peach.

Watch for blisters, loose flaps of skin and red, ulcerated patches on your pet's pads.

You have to lift up that flap of skin and the bag is stuffed in there.

The tip of the penis (glans) will be tightly covered by protective foreskin — which is simply a flap of skin surrounding the glans penis.

The pediatrician can clip this flap of skin to allow the tongue to move in and out of the baby's mouth.

Called heterochronic parabiosis the method involves surgically linking the circulatory systems of two mice of different ages by opening a flap of skin on each mouse's side and stitching the two together so that the same blood pumps through both creatures.

Like Anoles, iguana courtship includes head - bobbing and flapping its dewlap (the flap of skin under its neck).

Among members of this order were the pterodactyls of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, which were characterized by wings consisting of a flap of skin supported by the very long fourth digit on each forelimb.

«We think that species recognition among anole lizards is based on perception of dewlap colour, the dewlap being a flap of skin at the throat used to signal other lizards.»

The altered chicks still had a flap of skin over their would - be beaks, so the difference is not obvious, says Bhullar.

It's a flap of skin or membrane.

I only had one...... but thanks to my breast cancer surgeon I had a reconstruction last year so now have one real, one formed from a flap of skin.

Not how it might in the future, not in comparison to how it did in the past, but from each present moment to the next with all the wrinkles and saggy parts and flaps of skin and taut angles and freckles and «too big» this and «too small» that.

Called the snood, the flap of skin over the turkey's beak can turn different shades of red depending on the turkey's mood.

«Bearded» refers to a flap of skin under the chin that they extend when disturbed.

Unfortunately, a flap of skin was pulled away from her body resulting in a large area of missing skin.

Your dragon's «beard» — the flap of skin on the neck — is the best sign that your pet is having a good time.

The evening of the recheck examination, the owner let Mako outside for the night, but noticed that Mako's eyes «looked funny in the corners — there was a flap of skin that was crossing over the eye», presumably the third eyelid.

If he is mature at the time of neuter, the empty scrotum will remain as a flap of skin.

It was a pinch, actually, on the flap of skin between my index and middle fingers.

But in some breeds, dewclaws may not seem to be joined to their legs at all, except by just a flap of skin.

Around 500 species call the lake home and are adapted to Titicaca's unusual conditions, such as the giant Titicaca water frog with its flaps of skin suited to absorb the region's limited oxygen.

A frenectomy is procedure where the flap of skin under the tongue is trimmed to give the tongue more mobility and to prevent the child from being «tongue - tied».

Circumcision is the removal of the flap of skin which naturally covers the tip of the penis.