Sentence examples for rigid carapace from inspiring English sources
In other words, it is the rigid carapace of masculinity that melts in the revolution of the unconscious that occurs every night.
And its lack of an ordinary turtle-style shell (instead it has a leathery, flexible carapace not attached to its ribs and spinal column) probably represents another adaptation to deep water, where pressures would crack a rigid shell.
For most creatures, including people, the innards and the outer parts are connected to something rigid like a skeleton or carapace, and the movements of the inside and the outside are synchronized.
The keratin-covered boney top (dorsal) part of the shell, termed carapace, is composed of rigid sandwich-like ribs made of a central foam-like interior flanked by two external cortices.
The carapace of modern armadillos is rigid, but held together in parts by flexible bands while that of a glyptodont is more like a giant shell made of up tiny bony squares.
In turtles some vertebrae may be fused to the shell (carapace); in birds all but the cervical vertebrae are usually fused into a rigid structure, which lends support in flight.
The carapace and plastron are bony structures that usually join one another along each side of the body, creating a rigid skeletal box.
prawn carapace (PC) and corn style (CS).
Note the reduced carapace and elongated phalanges.
Artificial carapaces were developed to mimic selected material properties of a natural loggerhead carapace.
