Sentences with phrase «with mandibles»

The game makes good use of the 3DS» namesake feature, as Metroids hurtle through background scenery before bursting onto the front layer and charging our heroine with mandibles agape.

Specifically, the dog can exert 3,500 pounds of pressure with its mandibles.

Tiger - beetle larvae live in cylindrical burrows and capture insects that wander past with their mandibles.»

«Before now we've had only sparse hints at what the first arthropods with mandibles could have looked like, and no idea of what could have been the other key characteristics that triggered the unrivaled diversification of that group.»

Lambert used high - speed video to observe how ant lions grab prey with their mandibles.

They don't use their legs, but rather grip a perch with their mandibles to remain in place as they sleep.

Not exact matches

I was born with structural disabilities of the hands / leg / foot / ear / mandible.

The beetle uses its mandibles to latch on to an army ant's rear, where it blends in while moving to a new nest together with the ants

As expected, those with larger mandibles were more successful — but their female descendants produced fewer offspring.

These occur because when the body shape changes associated with developing large mandibles in males are transmitted to daughters it means a reduction in egg space.

Male horned beetles have enlarged lower jaws — or mandibles — used to fight rivals, and those with larger mandibles do have a mating advantage when there is direct male - male competition.

The insects have broad, shieldlike faces and mandibles bristling with sharp teeth, such as Eurhopalothrix procera (pictured above), and none are longer than 2.5 millimeters.

The new fossil — two inches of mandible with several teeth attached, assigned to the species Homo antecessor — is about 1.2 million years old.

Using advanced facial and cranial biomechanical analyses with nearly 40 people whose measurements were plotted from toddlers to adults, the UI team concludes mechanical forces, including chewing, appear incapable of producing the resistance needed for new bone to be created in the lower mandible, or jaw area.

The fossil record of South Asian «river dolphins» is poor, with no taxa reported from undisputable remains (e.g., Prolipotes yujiangensis Zhou, Zhou & Zhao, 1984 is known only from an isolated mandible that can not be clearly diagnosed).

Known only through isolated teeth, haramiyids were largely mysterious until the discovery of the remarkably well - preserved jaw of Haramiyavia — with intact molars, nearly complete mandibles and postcranial skeletal bones — in Greenland in 1995 by a team including Shubin, Stephen Gatesy, professor of biology at Brown University, and the late Farish Jenkins, former professor of zoology at Harvard University.

The Ledi - Geraru fossil preserves the left side of the lower jaw, or mandible, along with five teeth.

Analysis of the digital X-ray pictures is generally performed with respect to bones from the head (zygomatic bone, maxilla, mandibles), teeth, scapulae, clavicle, ribs (number, shape, fusion), pelvis, vertebrae (numbers, shape and potential fusion of cervical, thoracic, lumbar, pelvic and caudal ones), limb bones (humerus, radius, ulna, femur, tibia), joints, digits and syndactylism.

On the phone was my father informing me that he had been given the results of a recent biopsy and that he had been diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma in his mandible.

Ghoulish interest is a prerequisite for watching Mira Sorvino (as a bold and athletic entomologist) act against performers who have mandibles, or for appreciating the care with which nymph, juvenile and adult insect villains have been devised.

It turned out to contain a race of crustacean - like aliens, leggy things with twitching mandibles and burbling voices.

For some tumors, particularly those located in the front of the lower jaw (mandible), advanced imaging with computed tomography (a CT scan) may be recommended.

Cats with small tumors located on the lower jaw (mandible) that are treated with surgery have a better chance of surviving for one year; however, most will still eventually succumb to the disease.

For a while, pet health insurance seemed like the holy grail to bleeding - heart welfare types who'd end up shelling out the bucks for pets like Caramelo (see photo), whose owners couldn't afford to pay for care after a run - in with a big dog left him bereft of a mandible.

When the jaw is at rest, the mandibular incisors are situated behind the first larger set of maxillary incisors in occlusion with the peg teeth, and the cheek teeth do not touch (FIGURE 2).1 — 5 Lack of contact between the molars is due to anisognathism, meaning the mandible is narrower than the maxilla.1, 5

In some patients, it may be useful to open the mouth slightly with a small cotton prop to separate the occlusal surfaces of the maxillary and mandible teeth.

Radiographs showed changes consistent with craniomandubular osteopathy, a congenital disorder common in the Westie breed, that is an excessive and abnormal bone growth on the skull (cranium) and lower jaw (mandible) causing pain and discomfort.

His body score was listed as a 4 upon intake with a marked infection of his front mandible jaw.

Some puppies are born with an abnormally large forehead and broad mandible.

With respect to this, he states, The few studies which have been conducted of the structure of the skulls, mandibles and teeth of pit bulls show that, in proportion to their size, their jaw structure and thus its inferred functional morphology, is no different than that of any breed of dog.

By the time your dog is an adult the average normal adult dog will have approximately 42 permanent teeth with 20 upper (maxilla) and 22 lower (mandible).

The standard calls for an undershot jaw, with the lower jaw (mandible) being more pronounced.

The skin on his jaw was also torn off due to the kinetic impact with the asphalt, leaving the bones of his mandible almost completely exposed.

After Anna had some x-rays taken of her mouth, Dr. Mendoza diagnosed her with severe mandible jawbone loss due to the deteriorating teeth.

SCC of the maxilla (upper jaw) or mandible (lower jaw) in dogs is typically a locally invasive disease with a low metastatic rate.

Keel - billed Ramphastos sulfuratus and chesnut - mandibled toucans Rampahstos swainsonii are the largest (18 inches and 22 inches respectively), black with bright yellow «bibs» and multihued bills.

These differences were most evident when it came to the bird's beaks, with some possessing almost parrotesque bills while others sported more traditional songbird type mandibles.

In Going Down River on the USS J - Bone of an Ass (2017) two boats - one red tugboat, one made of an enormous floating mandible with a ripped sail - are floating down an acid green river toward a precipitous drop where all will most certainly tumble down and drown.