Sentence examples for habitus from inspiring English sources

The fishlike habitus that evidently began with cephalochordates became modified by the development of fins that were later transformed into limbs.

Although both groups have many characteristics in common (such as the possession of a cartilaginous skeleton, placoid scales, teeth simply embedded in gums, a spiral valve in the intestine, urea retention habitus, internal fertilization [for which the males have claspers], and the absence of a swim bladder), the two groups may have evolved independently along parallel lines.

There they adapted to life in salt water by evolving the urea retention habitus (see above Salt and water balance).

Since ethnic cultures are normally learned in childhood, they are so familiar that they become second nature or what Pierre Bourdieu refers to as "habitus".

Deficiency of androgens and estrogens during crucial periods of growth in childhood leads to a delay in epiphyseal maturation (retarded bone age), and, consequently, in adulthood affected individuals have long arms and long legs and a normal trunk (eunuchoid habitus, or height that is equal to or less than arm span).

Purely freshwater elasmobranchs, such as the stingrays of the Orinoco and Amazon drainage systems, seem to lack the urea retention habitus.

The marine cartilaginous fishes differ from almost all of the bony fishes (except the coelacanths and aestivating lungfishes) in being able to reabsorb in the renal (kidney) tubules most of their nitrogenous waste products (urea and trimethylamine oxide) and to accumulate these products in their tissues and blood, an ability termed the urea retention habitus.

A more severe definition of objectivity that would require a measure of validity outside any tradition of inquiry or paradigm or episteme or habitus is simply uncashable.

So he strove for balance; pairing an A&S habitus tunic with a mesh knit dress that mapped the body.

Aristotle was there first, stating in the fourth century B.C. "that all men who have attained excellence in philosophy, in poetry, in art and in politics, even Socrates and Plato, had a melancholic habitus; indeed some suffered even from melancholic disease".

These predicates belong to the fifth category, habit [habitus] (a habit is a garment used by the religious).