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Ten circumoral appendages are present, the 4th being the longest pair, and is retractile into pockets at the ventrolateral sides of head.
The habit of felids to use primarily their forelimbs to capture prey is supported by the anatomy and function of their retractile claws.
The feeding zooids use retractile tentacles, called the lophophore, to filter feed and have a U-shaped gut for digestion.
If a testis is not palpable, it is important to determine if it is retractile, ectopic, or cryptorchid.
Spores may be demonstrated by phase-contrast microscopy of wet mounts, where they appear mature and retractile.
This risk especially concerns patients with a poor quality of skin, but retractile fibroses are always possible.
These are retractile in grooves of the skin and are used to hold the female during mating.
Genets are elongate short-legged animals with long tapering tails, pointed noses, large rounded ears, and retractile claws.
Using the retractile method has had the unanticipated benefit of allowing school classes to stand on the bridge and ride it as it slides open.
Like scaphopods, bivalves have a retractile foot which they use to burrow.
Feet have 5 digits with short, curved and retractile claws.
The plant can be loaded on a truck thanks to its hydraulic retractile stabilizers, controlled from the ground through an appropriate remote commander.
These can result from a misunderstanding concerning what can reasonably be achieved, or be caused by unusual scarring phenomena or unexpected tissue reactions such as poor healing and retractile fibrosis.
The other principal types of shoulder pain which are not disorders of the cuff are acromioclavicular damage, compression of the suprascapular nerve, glenohumeral osteoarthritis, retractile capsulitis and spinal disorders.
Ideal for the construction industry, retractile extension cords are designed with a glow-in-the-dark material that makes working in dark areas safer.
Boys first noted in the medical record to have undescended testis after the first year of life were not considered cryptorchid because they may have had retractile testes.
Examples from Classical Literature
Most species have sharp, curved claws, often retractile between some of the lamellae or into a special sheath.
The brownish fins were rigid as metal, the retractile claws unsheathed and cruelly curved.
These are not retractile, as in the land-snails, and their office appears to be that of sensory organs.
It will be noted that Fulgur has a comparatively long and stout proboscis, or snout, which is not retractile.
Prevalence of cryptorchidism retractile testis and orchiopexy in school children.
Major filamentous structured adhesins, Type IV pili are retractile and mediate a mode of surface translocation termed twitching motility.
The cells produce a large number of stress fibers composed of alpha-Smooth Muscle Actin in order to increase their retractile properties.
All 19 cases resolved favorably, although multiple pigmented retractile scars persisted after treatment.
The tongue of some Hymenoptera also is retractile within the mouth.
In Stenus this organ is retractile, and consists of two joints.
The claws are not retractile, or at most semi-retractile as in the Panda.
The vermiform and retractile tongue is also a most singular organ.
Boys with undescended testis after the first year of life were not considered cryptorchid because they may have had retractile testes.
Foot retractile, longer than the animal, usually ends in two toes.
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