Sentence examples for oral aperture from inspiring English sources

The problem of small oral aperture is big.

Microstomia is defined as an acquired or congenital condition involving a reduction of the oral aperture severe enough to compromise esthetics, nutrition, and quality of life.

Dome-shaped papillae are commonly present on trematodes tegument surfaces, and they are believed to have a sensory function [71] related to feeding at the oral aperture, pressure detection on the general body surface, and sexual reception around the genital pore [72].

They concluded that amphioxus avoid fine sand bottoms due to occlusion of the oral aperture and the atriopore.

Branchiostoma floridae seems to be an exception to this rule since they live in fine sand bottoms that evidently do not block their oral aperture.

Our results also show a clear preference of B. lanceolatum in the Racou beach for sandy sites, suggesting that most if not all the different amphioxus species in the world need such a permeable bottom and avoid fine grains that may block their oral aperture.

Sea squirts have two large pores, one to guide water into the body cavity (the oral, or branchial, aperture), the other serving as an exit (the atrial, or cloacal, aperture).

A clinical study found the ability to open the mouth as shown by the oral and incisor aperture was significantly decreased in patients with poor oral hygiene [ 29].

There are five oral scales in the aperture (2.4 – 3.6 μm), which is comprised of two main scales between a membranous operculum and three thinner scales that cover the main oral scales (see asterisks in Fig. 1C).

We suggest that swallowing and the subsequent expulsion of water most likely would have been coordinated, with control of both the size of the oral opening and lateral apertures.

The anterior end has a narrow aperture (3 – 5.6 μm) that is comprised of three oral scales (see asterisks in Fig. 1D) extending from the cell body as a "neck" (see N in Fig. 1D).