When Simi begins to palpate Mary's joints, she finds her stride, spilling out technical terms as she goes: symmetrical deformity; ulnar deviation at the MCP joint; rheumatoid nodules, widespread over all joints; Z-thumb deformity; fixed flexion deformity on all fingers; swan neck deformity… The list seems endless, and Karan is impressed, needing to prompt Simi only once or twice.
Corythosaurus had parallel rows of nodules across its abdomen.The features are not enough on their own to allow individual dinosaurs to be identified.
A sudden view of a ravine with a grey heron winging across it; the moon rising "like a huge rusty coin"; Parmesan cheese, eaten after days of hunger, with "hard, salty nodules" of curd in it; the shock of blue and green phosphorescence dripping from his oar.
On the pretext of mining manganese nodules, a giant claw would scrape it up; then the underbelly of the ship would open, swallowing the submarine whole.The mission mostly failed, but the saga became a book and a film.
A number had distinct nodule patterns all over their bodies or had nodules that were consistently larger in some parts of their bodies, like their arms, and smaller in other parts, like their backs.
Unlike manganese nodules, which are like golf balls scattered across the seabed, these deep-ocean deposits occur in small areas around extinct hydrothermal vents.
As a result, the researchers were even sometimes able to identify which bit of the body the impressions represented.Ms Clayton found that bodies of adult hadrosaurs were dotted with round or polygon-shaped nodules.
Bacteria in the nodules of leguminous plants' roots convert soil nitrogen into ammonia, the feedstock of nitrogen fertiliser.
Several hadrosaur genera, for instance, had corrugated nodules ornamented with ridges; many did not.
Further in the future, it may be possible to extract metals from the manganese nodules that collect like tennis balls on the sea floor (an idea that enjoyed a vogue in the 1970s, but proved uneconomic then).
