10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPLINTLIKE»
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Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations
These data suggest that the cokability of dull-appearing attrital coal cannot
always be predicted on the basis of visual splintlike characteristics or even some
customary laboratory tests ued to determine coking properties of coal. In the
Bureau of ...
2
The Dinosauria: Second Edition
In Lesothosaurus metatarsal I is unusual in that it is small, thin, and splintlike; its
well-formed distal condyles are set at an angle to the remaining metatarsals, and
it bears a slender proximal phalanx and a slightly decurved, pointed ungual.
David B. Weishampel, Peter Dodson, Halszka Osmólska, 2004
Each mesopterygoid bladelike, membranous, poorly ossified at dorsal and
posterior margins, tapering to a splintlike process anteriorly, and entirely
supported by dorsal surface of ectopterygoid. Ectopterygoids. — Each
ectopterygoid an ...
4
Lothagam: The Dawn of Humanity in Eastern Africa
The lachrymals are apparently long and splintlike, reaching to the front of the
promontorium in moderately sized animals such as LT 23177, and about midway
along it in LT 26306. The lachrymals contact the nasals as in gavialids and ...
Meave G. Leakey, John Michael Harris, 2013
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Species, Serpents, Spirits, and Skulls: Science at the ...
One, named Hipparion, had attached to the long metacarpal bone two splintlike
bones and attached to the end of them was a small toe with three joints of the
same general character as the middle toe. They were very much smaller and
must ...
Sherrie Lynne Lyons, 2010
Anal rays 7. Dorsal rays 8. Short ray at front of dorsal fin thickened, rather than
splintlike, and separate from first principal ray. Pre- dorsal area flattened with
scales conspicuously smaller and more crowded than adjacent scales on sides.
Henry W. Robison Thomas M. Buchanan
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The Horse: With a Treatise on Draught
... The tendon common to the camp/e11“ major (larger complicated), and aplem'u:
(splintlike) :—to the mastoid process of the temporal, to hold up the head, or the
muscles on one side alone acting, to turn it. d The :lema-maa'illari: (belonging to
...
The fifth toe was reduced to a single nubbin ofbone borne on a short metatarsal
with a slender, splintlike distal end. It has commonly been argued that such a
reduced fifth toe barred basal sauropodomorphs from being ancestors of the
more ...
Michael K. Brett-Surman, Thomas R. Holtz, James O. Farlow, 2012
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Musculoskeletal Emergencies
PREHOSPITAL CARE AND MANAGEMENT I Initial management of a child with a
hand injury includes immobilization of the hand or affected digit; this can be
accomplished with a splint or splintlike material such as a tongue depressor.
Bruce D. Browner, Robert P. Fuller, 2012
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Primate Adaptation and Evolution: 3rd Edn
The tibia is larger and participates in the knee joint; distally, it forms the main
articulation with the ankle. The fibula is a slender, splintlike bone that articulates
with the tibia both above and below, and also forms the lateral side of the ankle
joint.
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPLINTLIKE»
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splintlike is used in the context of the following news items.
Utah carvers find their niche in wooden hobby
Ure wears gloves and has a special splintlike device for her thumb. "These are Kevlar gloves with leather," she said, holding her hands up. "The Kevlar slows it ... «Salt Lake Tribune, Mar 12»
Mitts, Moon Boots and Other Must-Haves
... check out the Flexmeter splintlike wrist guards and snowboard gloves, which are specifically engineered to minimize the jarring effect of a typical, arm-out fall. «New York Times, Dec 06»
Eames by design, chairs by choice
... with a good book; and World War II soldiers with wounded legs, which could be propped on a splintlike extension that supported the limb from hip to toe. «Boston Globe, Mar 05»
