Usage examples (3)

• The same thing to a less degree takes place in reptiles; the ankle-bones do not indeed anchylose with the shin-bone and foot respectively, but they nevertheless unite...
• In all birds, on the contrary, not only is there no motion between the ankle-bones (as a whole) and the shin-bone, but the two rows of ankle-bones actually anchylose...
• It is fish-like because the terminal piece, as it is called, or "coccyx" (unlike the coccyx in man or in birds) is not composed of rudimentary vertebræ which subsequently blend...