Sentence examples for hinge ligament from inspiring English sources

A block of rubbery protein, the inner hinge ligament, lies just inside the hinge.

When the adductor muscle contracts, it closes the shell, but, in so doing, it compresses the inner hinge ligament.

The muscle is also capable of maintaining the tension needed to hold the shell shut against the spring action of the hinge ligament without using much metabolic energy.

For histological determination of sex, progeny were dissected using a sharp scalpel inserted between shell halves on the ventral side, slicing through the posterior and anterior adductor muscles and the hinge ligament.

The general classification of the bivalves is typically based on shell structure and hinge and ligament organization.

Over the course of 48 hours, the internal organs undergo a 90° rotation, the valves, hinge and ligament appear and the gills lengthen.

Yet the earliest reliable bivalves with elaborated hinge and ligament (Fordilla, Pojetaia) appear earlier, in the Early Tommotian ([ 74]; ca. 535 Ma).

The hinge plate with ligament also possesses interlocking teeth to enforce valve alignment and locking, when closed, to prevent shear.

The two valves of the bivalve shell are held together at the hinge by a ligament composed of two keratinised proteins, tensilium and resilium.

(2004) [21] 13 patients, duration 1 5 months (average 2 months) Open reduction, preservation or reconstruction of coronoid process and radiocapitellar contact, repair or reconstruction of lateral collateral ligament, hinged external fixation, anterior subcutaneous transposition of ulnar nerve Mahaisavariya et al.

The mantle lobes secrete the shell valves; the mantle crest secretes the ligament and hinge teeth.