Sentence examples for tongue structure from inspiring English sources

"Their behavior of swallowing food whole, and their tongue structure and function, suggest that penguins need no taste perception," said Zhang, "although it is unclear whether these traits are a cause or a consequence of their major taste loss".

Other changes include the reduction in size or loss of tail fins, the closure of gill slits, thickening of the skin, the development of eyelids, and certain changes in dentition and tongue structure.

Also, the internal tongue structure is very different.

To investigate the effect of including functionally convergent characters, we reanalyzed the morphological data excluding characters that both: (i) unambiguously supported spurious clades, and (ii) were related to feeding ecology (i.e. concerning dentition, tongue structure and musculature); results are shown in Table 4.

However, in NheA an enlarged β-tongue structure was found [ 64] which, despite its similarity to ClyA and HblB, might be involved in a protein-protein interaction associated with an unknown function.

The team was surprised to find two blood-filled sinuses under and on either side of the tongue, expandable structures that had never been observed in birds before.

The curved low-frequency transducer (∼4.0 MHz) is most suitable for obtaining sagittal and parasagittal views of the tongue and structures in the submandibular and supraglottic regions, mainly because of its wider field of view.

Literatures have reported the impact of RME on dental and skeletal structures, tongue posture, nasal morphology, and airway volume [14-17] [14-17]

Complex 2 displays an interesting two-dimensional (2-D) tongue-and-groove structure containing a new kind of "T-shaped" unit.

The toothcomb is kept clean by the sublingua or "under-tongue", a specialized structure that acts like a toothbrush to remove hair and other debris.

Within the mouth, distinct habitats provide different ecologic conditions including mucosal surfaces, cheeks, palate, periodontal region, tongue, and abiotic structures (teeth).