costae

The beat of their hearts, the rush of oxygen filling their lungs and even strain in the upper back — the levator costae muscle — could be considered a product of function rather than form.

Body of Knowledge Steve Giegerich 2001

In man and the mammalia the costal arches hold relation with the pulmonary organs, and these costae fail at that region where the ventral organs are located.

Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

Intercostal: between veins or costae; usually in the narrow grooves between veins in the costal region of a wing.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

But at the thoracic section of the column they develop into independent strong osseous arches, the ribs (costae).

The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

[PETALOCONCHUS SCULPTURATUS] Shell vermiform, tubular, provided with two longitudinal plates internally; externally it has nodulose ribs or costae.

Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds 1858

There only, a botanist, after a long residence, could compose a monography of the genus cactus, the species of which vary not only in their flowers and fruits, but also in the form of their articulated stems, the number of costae, and the disposition of the thorns.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

There only, a botanist, after a long residence, could compose a monography of the genus cactus, the species of which vary not only in their flowers and fruits, but also in the form of their articulated stems, the number of costae, and the disposition of the thorns.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

Among the bird species found here are the sanguaro-inhabiting cactus wren (Calypte costae), black-tailed gnatcatcher (Polioptila melanura), phainopepla (Phainopepla nitens), Gila woodpecker (Melanerpes uropygualis), and Costa's hummingbird (Calypte costae).

Sonoran desert 2009

Filix ramosa canariensis, rutae murariae pinnu - lis angustis altius incisis mediae costae alter - natim alligatis.

Species plantarum : exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas 1797

A. frondihus piniiatis, pinnis oblongo-lanceo -. latis acuniinatis pinnatilidis, laciniis ovato - lanceolatis acutis serrulatis, soris costae utrin - que contiguis.

Species plantarum : exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas 1797