What birds have instead is a strange structure inside their eye called the pecten oculi, which looks kind of like an old steam radiator dangling into the vitreous humor, which seems to be a metabolic specialization to secrete oxygen and nutrients into the vitreous to supply by diffusion the retina.    From Wordnik.com.  [More creationist misconceptions about the eye - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Nonnullos occidit ingens suppuratio, decem autem excoriatis supersunt plerumque octo: hi pecten habent nullum, ventremque pallida tegit cutis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

The pecten is shaved either without or after using depilatories, of which more presently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

Here, however, Habk is a pennyroyal (mentha puligium), and probably alludes to the pecten.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

This is a large species of pecten, is closely allied to the P. princeps of the English crag.    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

In the Red Crag, for instance, we find the first known ancestors of our common edible periwinkle and common edible mussel; and in the Coraline Crag, the first known ancestors of the common horse-mussel, the common whelk, the common oyster, and the great pecten.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference

It consists of a horse-shoe arch, the face of which is ornamented with gilded glass mosaic, forming the entrance to a semi-circular recess beautifully adorned with arabesques and inscriptions, the top of the dome being a large white marble slab hollowed out in the form of a pecten shell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond] Reference

It is white, or of a clear ochre-yellow, with a dull fracture, sometimes conchoidal, sometimes smooth; divided into thin layers, furnishing some balls of pyromac silex, often hollow (at Rio Canimar two leagues east of Matanzas), and petrifications of pecten, cardites, terebratules and madrepores.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference

Canimar two leagues east of Matanzas), and petrifications of pecten, cardites, terebratules and madrepores.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference

` combs '(crista in the skullbones, and pecten in the intestines), and many ` purses' (bursa; cf. bursitis).    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 1] Reference

“Sha’r,” properly, hair of body, pile, especially the pecten.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

We can trace several of our existing quadrupeds, such as the badger, the hare, the fox, the red deer, and the wild cat, up till the earlier times of the Pleistocene; and not a few of our existing shells, such as the great pecten, the edible oyster, the whelk, and the Pelican's-foot shell, up till the greatly earlier times of the Coraline Crag.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference