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AVERAGE |
Median |
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MEDIAN |
A median line or point. |
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MONOCULE |
A small crustacean with one median eye. |
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KEELED |
Having a median ridge; carinate; as, a keeled scale. |
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RHACHIS |
The median part of the radula of a mollusk. |
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METASTOME |
A median elevation behind the mouth in the arthropods. |
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MENTUM |
The front median plate of the labium in insects. See
Labium. |
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MESETHMOID |
The median vertical plate, or median element, of the
ethmoid bone. |
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GLABELLUM |
The median, convex lobe of the head of a trilobite. See
Trilobite. |
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EPISTERNUM |
A median bone connected with the sternum, in many
vertebrates; the interclavicle. |
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ENTOPLASTRON |
The median plate of the plastron of turtles; --
called also entosternum. |
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UROSTEON |
A median ossification back of the lophosteon in the
sternum of some birds. |
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SUBMEDIAN |
Next to the median (on either side); as, the submedian
teeth of mollusks. |
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SCISSORS-TAILED |
Having the outer feathers much the longest, the
others decreasing regularly to the median ones. |
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MESIAL |
Middle; median; in, or in the region of, the mesial plane;
internal; -- opposed to lateral. |
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FORK-TAILED |
Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median
ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds. |
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INTERCENTRUM |
The median of the three elements composing the centra
of the vertebrae in some fossil batrachians. |
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UROHYAL |
Of or pertaining to one or more median and posterior
elements in the hyoidean arch of fishes. |
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HYPOCLEIDIUM |
A median process on the furculum, or merrythought, of
many birds, where it is connected with the sternum. |
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RAPHE |
A line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the
median line; as, the raphe of the tongue. |
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LINGUA |
A median process of the labium, at the under side of the
mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue. |
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UMBILICUS |
The depression, or mark, in the median line of the
abdomen, which indicates the point where the umbilical cord separated
from the fetus; the navel. |
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PYGAL |
Situated in the region of the rump, or posterior end of the
backbone; -- applied especially to the posterior median plates in the
carapace of chelonians. |
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ABDUCTOR |
A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or form the
median line of the body; as, the abductor oculi, which draws the eye
outward. |
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STAGGER |
To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median
line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler
seam. |