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  • noun Plural form of pterygoid.

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  • Describe, as accurately as possible, the position of palatine bones, pterygoids, the ethmoid bone, the pre - and basi-sphenoids, in the dog's skull.

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

  • The pterygoids in the dog are much reduced, and do not reach back to the suspensorium.

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

  • The pterygoids, and the processes of the lower jaw, relatively to the size of the head, are broader than in _G. bankiva_; and this is likewise the case with

    The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

  • The bones at the base, from the occipital foramen to the anterior end (including the quadrates and pterygoids), are absolutely identical in _shape_ in all the skulls.

    The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

  • (pal.), which conceal much of the pre - and orbito-sphenoid in the ventral view, and which run back as ridges to terminate in two small angular bones, the pterygoids (pt.) which we shall find represent much more important structures in the lower vertebrata.

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

  • (Figure 4) we see a pair of vomers (vo.) bearing teeth, a pair of palatines (pal.), [and a pair of pterygoids (pt.)] (which [palatines and pterygoids, we may note,] unlike those of the rabbit, are - stated to be - membrane bones), and a great median dagger-shaped para-sphenoid

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

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