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Its substrate is composed of anastomosing mudbanks and unconsolidated calcareous sediments over limestones and is one of the most active areas of modern carbonate sedimentation.

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Ecoregion 63d is composed of beaches, dunes, low terraces, beach ridges, and barrier islands that are fringed by lagoons, bays, tidal salt marshes, mudflats, anastomosing tidal channels, or ocean.

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Lopez (Cabo de Lopo Gonsalvez), and which forms by anastomosing with a southern river the Ogobe (Ogowai of M. du Chaillu), a complicated delta whose sea-front extends from north to south, at least eighty miles.

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Initially, the run-off is diffuse or forms a sheet of water in minute anastomosing streams.

2.1. Factors in rainfall erosion 1982

If on the other hand, the pressure of the carotid artery is diminished by anastomosing it with a large venous system, such as the superficial veins of the neck, its wall becomes thinner, and hypertrophy of the intima is produced.

Alexis Carrel - Nobel Lecture 1967

If he had had at his disposal an efficient method of anastomosing blood vessels, he would have doubtless accomplished a real replantation of the limb.

Alexis Carrel - Nobel Lecture 1967

-- The brachial artery, When this artery is tied immediately below the axilla, the collateral circulation will be weakly maintained, in consequence of the small number of anastomosing branches arising from it above and below the seat of the ligature.

Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

When this vessel is tied, the free direct circulation through the principal arteries of the right arm, and the right side of the neck, head, and brain, becomes arrested; and the degree of strength of the recurrent circulation depends solely upon the amount of anastomosing points between the following arteries of the opposite sides.

Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

When either of the common carotids is tied, the circulation will be maintained through the anastomosing branches of the opposite vessels as above specified.

Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

Stevenson says that P. leptopus is a remarkable species, that it is distinguished from P. involutus by having the gills simple at the base, not united by interlacing or transverse veins (anastomosing).

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