Sentence examples for transverse slit from inspiring English sources
In the course of gastrulation the shape of the blastopore changes from a simple pit to a transverse slit and finally into a groove encircling the yolky material at the vegetal pole.
Interpretation of this groove as having contained the optic nerve has been confirmed by a single complex fossil, a complete skull and braincase with both eye capsules and the rostral capsule in place, showing this "optic fissure" as a transverse slit passing right across the skull between the eye sockets (Fig. 4c).
Squamates and tuatara both show caudal autotomy (loss of the tail-tip when threatened), and have transverse cloacal slits.
Epigynum a protruding sclerotized area and a posterior transverse plate with slit-like, medially converging copulatory openings (Fig. 2C D).
Conversely, bimodal orientation states are observed in slit-expansion flows, where transverse extension leads to a strong reduction in the average degree of molecular orientation along the flow direction.
The kink is called the Transverse Ranges.
