The entire spine is covered with a thin layer of skin called the integumentary sheath, in which venom is concentrated. From Wordnik.com. [Swimming with Stingrays | Impact Lab] Reference
The integumentary system consists of the skin, hair, nails, and certain exocrine glands. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Language of Your Body] Reference
So what should you avoid smearing all over the largest largest organ of the integumentary system?. From Wordnik.com. [Mairi Beautyman: Three Dangerous Ingredients to Avoid in Skincare Products] Reference
Injury may occur without envenomation because many stingrays lose or tear the integumentary sheath covering the venom glands. From Wordnik.com. [Goodbye Steve!, I learned alot!!] Reference
In 1999, they first described the find in "A therizinosauroid dinosaur with integumentary structures from China," published in Nature. From Wordnik.com. [An Ancient Quill Rewrites Dinosaur History] Reference
It is preserved with simple quill-like integumentary structures that seem antecedent to the true complex feathers that evolved later. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
The stingray's tail has 1 or more barbed stingers and 2 ventrolateral venom-containing grooves that are encased in an integumentary sheath. From Wordnik.com. [Goodbye Steve!, I learned alot!!] Reference
The function of the integumentary system is to protect, nourish, insulate, and cushion the body from the harmful substances of the outside world. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Language of Your Body] Reference
The Yixian Formation is the now famous unit that has produced all those little coelurosaurs with feathers and other integumentary structures preserved, and Dilong is no exception. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
Basal tyrannosauroids and other basal coelurosaurs that possess specialised premaxillary teeth that might have been used in preening/grooming of quill-like integumentary structures. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
Investing bones were actual integumentary ossifications which had gradually sunk beneath the skin to become part of the internal skeleton; substitutionary bones were produced by cells. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Having mentioned tyrannosauroids, I might also note that basal forms combine proportionally small premaxillary teeth with quill-like integumentary structures that would have needed preening (or is grooming the correct term here?). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
Furthermore, probable ‘proto-feathers’ (rather simple quill-like integumentary structures, almost certainly the morphological ancestors of true, complex feathers) were present in compsognathids, basal tyrannosauroids and alvarezsaurids. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
Similarly, while it is known that the effects inhibitors have on the thyroid can in turn lead to adverse effects on the digestive, cardiovascular and integumentary systems, it is not yet known what effect current concentrations of perchlorate have in the body. From Wordnik.com. [Fate and effects of perchlorate] Reference
In a phylogenetic analysis of skeletal, integumentary and soft-tissue characters, Livezey (1996) concluded that the members of Aythyini fell into four major groups, which in branching order are: the stem or narrow-billed pochards, the redheads, the white-eyes, and the scaup. From Wordnik.com. [The Madagascar pochard returns] Reference
True feathers, so far as we know, were restricted to maniraptorans (the theropod clade that includes oviraptors, dromaeosaurs and birds), but simpler, filament-like integumentary structures appear to have evolved much earlier within theropod history, probably at or around the base of Coelurosauria. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Christmas, from gigantic Spanish sauropods... or, alas, poor ‘Angloposeidon’] Reference
Biology students are finishing up with the integumentary system. From Wordnik.com. [Photos - DesMoinesRegister.com] Reference
Pennaceous (vaned) feathers and integumentary filaments are preserved in birds. From Wordnik.com. [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference
The distribution of integumentary types in coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs and inferred distribution of plumage patterning. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
It's probably only a matter of time before someone works out what colour these structures were in life: the integumentary structures of. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science]
The current data from theropods shows that quill-like integumentary structures were present in theropods before one lineage gave rise to scansorial proto-birds. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
The skin is part of the integumentary system, which includes the hair and the nails, and which serves as a barrier between the environment and the inside of the body. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
If you've ever read anything about Ptychozoon (or seen it on TV, or in real life), you'll be familiar with the idea that these integumentary structures are all used to help these geckos to glide. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
For although we usually rank mammals as higher than birds (being mammals ourselves, how could we do otherwise?), there are many ways in which birds are pre-eminent, e.g. in skeleton, musculature, integumentary structures, and respiratory system. From Wordnik.com. [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference
The red and (especially in brunettes) dark appearance of the nymphæ suggests that they are mucous membrane and not integumentary; it is, however, now considered that even on the inner surface they are covered by skin and separated from the mucous membrane by. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy] Reference
Theropods weren’t the only Mesozoic tetrapods with a furry coat of integumentary fibres: we also know that pterosaurs were fuzzy too. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
A computer virus isnt biological (its called virus because it acts as a real one) what is the interaction between the urinary system and the integumentary system?. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
For integumentary system, 91, 225–226. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Language of Your Body] Reference
integumentary system, 72–73, 153–154, 225–226. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Language of Your Body] Reference
Medical-Surgical Nursing Demystified features a full chapter for each system -- cardiovascular, respiratory, immune, hematologic, nervous, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, endocrine, genitourinary, and integumentary. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
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