Sentence examples for laterally compressed from inspiring English sources

The triangular epipterygoid is laterally compressed and overlaps the lateral surface of the quadrate ramus of the pterygoid (Figures 19, 26).

8. Perianth-tube tubiform or obconical; style not laterally compressed, stigma elliptic or lachrymiform, lateral; longitudinal ridges on inner surface 12 24.

Perianth-tube tubiform or obconical; style not laterally compressed, stigma elliptic or lachrymiform, lateral; longitudinal ridges on inner surface 12 24.

Lipid monolayers with varying proportions of CoQ10 were laterally compressed to measure CoQ10 miscibility and lateral organization.

"It's very laterally compressed so that means it was probably made for piercing flesh," Burnham said.

The laterally compressed, fishlike form of the anaspids (such as Pharyngolepis) indicates a free-swimming habit.

In deeper-burrowing species the shells are laterally compressed, permitting more rapid movement through the sediments.

The head tends to be laterally compressed in animals that use the other two patterns.

The weakly developed dentition consisted of small, laterally compressed, leaf-shaped teeth arranged in short, straight rows.

The shells of the most efficient burrowers, the razor clams Ensis and Solen, are laterally compressed, smooth, and elongated.

One oddity is the bill of skimmers, in which the upper mandible is streamlined in cross section and laterally compressed.