annuli

These are growth rings -- annuli -- which, properly counted, will give the age of your fish in years.

Boing Boing 2009

Maximum pump pressures, which are fed to both the annuli of the legs for lowering the roof support chock, and to the positioning rams are now around 315 bar.

Next Sealed | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

The species differ from the other eight known caecilian members of the genus Gegeneophis in India by the presence of visible eyes, over 120 annuli and over 75 secondary annular grooves.

Archive 2007-02-01 2007

Stultissimus pilus occipitis mei plus scit, quam omnes vestri doctores, et calceorum meorum annuli doctiores sunt quam vester Galenus et Avicenna, barba mea plus experta est quam vestrae omnes Academiae.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Like all mammals, we have a cycle of formation of rings around the tooth root called cementum annuli that form annually.

Conversations: Bone Reader 2005

Ordinarily, we would call the lab and ask what the teeth annuli said about how old this hunter's moose was.

grouse Diary Entry grouse 2003

Teeth annuli say the critter was three years old (or 3.3 years, as the stupid lab report lists it).

grouse Diary Entry grouse 2002

The ring distinguished the free-born from the servile, who, however, sometimes obtained the _jus annuli_, or privilege of the ring.

Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. Various

From this point of view, poise and calmness, the absence of all intense annuli and of sensations or transitions which are abrupt or sudden, and an atmosphere of quieting influences, like everything which retards by broadening, is in the general line of religious culture.

Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885

In some the general hue is orange brown with obscure annuli; the arrangement of the hair is distichous or in two rows.

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870