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coracohyomandibularis

coracohyomandibularis noun: a certain hypobranchial muscle found in batoid fish.

Noun

coracohyomandibularis

  1. (uncommon) A certain hypobranchial muscle found in batoid fish.
    • The cranial muscles of batoids are basically similar to sharks, although some of the homologies are unclear (e.g., the "X" muscle of electric rays), the muscles are depressed in form (e.g., preorbitalis), some muscles may be lacking (e.g., intermandibularis), and some muscles may be unique to...2004, Jeffrey C. Carrier, John A. Musick, Michael R. Heithaus, editors, Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives, CRC Press, page 183
    • The hypobranchial muscles include the coracoarcualis, coracohyoideus, coracomandibularis, and coracohyomandibularis.2011, Anthony Farrell, Ernest Donald Stevens, Jeffrey G. Richards, Joseph J. Cech, editors, Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology: From Genome to Environment, volume 3, Elsevier Science, page 458

Examples of coracohyomandibularis in a sentence

  • Batoids also have two unique muscles that depress the hyomandibular cartilage, a depressor hyomandibularis and coracohyomandibularis muscle (Marion, 1905; Miyake et al., 1992; Wilga and Motta, 1998b).2015, Anthony Peter Farrell, Colin Brauner, Robert E. Shadwick, editors, Physiology of Elasmobranch Fishes: Structure and Interaction with...
  • The sternohyoideus extends from the fascia ventral to the coracohyomandibularis and inserts onto the hypohyal cartilage (Figure 5.5E).2018, Rui Diogo, Janine M. Ziermann, Julia Molnar, Natalia Siomava, Virginia Abdala, Muscles of Chordates: Development, Homologies, and...

Questions about coracohyomandibularis

What does coracohyomandibularis mean?
Coracohyomandibularis means a certain hypobranchial muscle found in batoid fish.
How do you use coracohyomandibularis in a sentence?
Batoids also have two unique muscles that depress the hyomandibular cartilage, a depressor hyomandibularis and coracohyomandibularis muscle (Marion, 1905; Miyake et al., 1992; Wilga and Motta, 1998b).
What part of speech is coracohyomandibularis?
Coracohyomandibularis is a noun.

Words near coracohyomandibularis in the dictionary

  1. coracoacromial
  2. coracobrachial
  3. coracobrachialis
  4. coracoclavicular
  5. coracohumeral
  6. coracohyomandibularis
  7. coracoid
  8. coracoid process
  9. coracoid processes
  10. coracoidal
  11. coracoideal

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