In mammals the quadrate bone is incorporated into the middle ear as the malleus. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
Adjective : a cross quadrate. From Dictionary.com.
And twixt them both a quadrate was the base. From Wordnik.com. [The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry] Reference
Lodicules are cuneate or quadrate and two in number. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The articular-quadrate hinge was free to function solely in sound conduction. From Wordnik.com. [What a difference a day makes. - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
It is a fine upright column about seven feet high, and stands on a quadrate base. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference
Emarginate: notched: with an obtuse, rounded or quadrate section cut from a margin. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
It is a neat quadrate edifice with a courtyard in which stands a large stone basin. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference
And if they do not quadrate, how can it be but the one must exceed and the other fall short?. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
For if neither of these are true, the other both will and will not quadrate with the greater. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
Video musicale colorato e variegato, con auto dalle ruote quadrate, diggei e rapimenti alieni. From Wordnik.com. [No Fat Clips!!! : DJ YODA – Wheels] Reference
The reptilian quadrate bone became the mammalian incus, while the articular bone became the malleus. From Wordnik.com. [What a difference a day makes. - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
So the quadrate and the articular are the two bones that in all other animals except mammals make up the jaw. From Wordnik.com. [What a difference a day makes. - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The hyoid is at first connected with the skull, but afterwards frees itself and becomes slung to the "quadrate.". From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
As an example of the utility and, indeed, the necessity of applying the embryological method Huxley takes the case of the quadrate bone in birds. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
The proximal end of Meckel's cartilage, which in mammals forms the hammer, here gives the articular surface between the lower jaw and the quadrate. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
But when he says that there is something greater and yet not exceeding, it were worth the while to ask, whether these things quadrate with one another. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
In the anterior halves a cartilaginous rod is developed which is connected with the skull; these rods become on either side the lower jaw and "quadrate.". From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
The occipital, the parietal, and frontal, the bones which surround the internal ear, the vomer, the premaxilla, and the quadrate bones, may be given as examples. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
Hornbills are also unusual in possessing a unique ligament – the quadratomandibular ligament – that connects the body of the quadrate with the inside surface of the lower jaw. From Wordnik.com. [Bucorvids: post-Cretaceous maniraptorans on the savannah] Reference
The pterygoid and quadrate bones present no difference. From Wordnik.com. [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference
Seeds of both small and quadrate, smaller in the latter. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
It is rather rough, and is somewhat quadrate or angular. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
A small plant with stem red, straight, quadrate, ramose. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
The earliest example of a perfectly quadrate crossing, with. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
Page 15 quadrate with their finite notions and preconceived opinions. From Wordnik.com. [An Address before the Medical Society of North Carolina, at Its Second Annual Meeting, in Raleigh, May 1851, by Charles E. Johnson, M.D.] Reference
(Fig. 205.) Shell sub-quadrate and ovate, nearly straight and slightly. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
It was supposed that the quadrate bone represented one of the ossicula auditus. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
A small tree 11 or more feet high, branches opposite, quadrate at the extremities. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
Ever is uneven any graphasting but never was not even one graphastest unever, bey quadrate. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
The quadrate cartilage of the frog is superseded by the squamosal as the suspensorium of the lower jaw. From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
As development proceeds, the increase in size of the quadrate, does not keep pace with that of the skull structures. From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
She will never be satisfied till she quadrate the circle, or, like Mary Somerville, understand the Mechanique Celeste of. From Wordnik.com. [My manse during the war : a decade of letters to the Rev. J. Thomas Murray, editor of the Methodist Protestant,] Reference
The bony arch below the supratemporal fossa, which connects the orbit with the quadrate, is now affected in two different ways: I. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
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