quadrupedal


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Synonyms for quadrupedal

having four feet

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In this procedure, the animal can be kept sedated in the quadrupedal position; sinus access occurs through trepanation, which allows for the introduction of endoscopes (PERKINS et al., 2009a; O'LEARY & DIXON, 2011).
(2015) used healed bone fractures in nonavian dinosaurs to infer shifts from a bipedal to quadrupedal posture in extinct Maiasura.
The term plantaris is derived from the Latin word 'planta' meaning the 'sole of foot.' It has been suggested that the plantaris is a vestigial remnant of human's quadrupedal ancestry and was earlier attached to the plantar aponeurosis, but with the evolutionary process of erect posture, the insertion of the muscle got shifted to a higher position.
philippensis was classified into seven categories: feeding (including handling and ingestion of food items), calling, movement (includes quadrupedal movement, such as walking, running, climbing, jumping and gliding), resting (outside the tree cavity without any activity), exploring (including food searching and scrutinizing surroundings), grooming (squirrels clean itself by licking, biting and scratching through hairs) and nesting inside the cavity (squirrels in tree cavities).
Baird (1952) measured the distance between successive manus and pes sets as a proxy for the relative trunk length of a quadrupedal tetrapod (the glenoacetabular distance - i.e.
Even the ladies have very much to say of these quadrupedal friends of man, to the no small astonishment of the visitor who, however, in a week finds himself talking as constantly and as confidently of cayuses and bronchos, of corrals and branding and rounding up as a true soul of the plains and not a mere newly arrived tender-foot.
In these cases, bipedal locomotion is considered more effective than quadrupedal in escaping from predators because it allows for greater speed, rapid response to attacks from predators, and sudden changes in direction (Taraborelli et al., 2003).
(1997): Las Cerradicas tracksite (Berriasian, Galve, Spain): Growing evidence for quadrupedal ornithopods.
To address whether gait is "physically" affected by chorea in HD, we investigated gait and chorea in quadrupedal animal, where balance can be independently accessed without being affected by other symptoms such as chorea.
Observed locomotion patterns of pangolins include quadrupedal movement from one point to another, horizontally or vertically, towards or away from facing direction.
O exame ultrassonografico tambem pode ser realizado com o animal em posicao quadrupedal quando se deseja o deslocamento do fluido intraluminal para a area de interesse (14).
Washington, July 7 ( ANI ): Researchers have found that bipedal desert rodents are able to co-exist with their quadrupedal counterparts by employing a diverse set of jumps, hops and skips.
To the first question, the answer is that modern Europeans are not far removed from their quadrupedal (and even aquatic) ancestors and remain much like their "savage" brethren.
A well-known study excluding kangaroo rats from long-term monitoring plots in southeastern Arizona has demonstrated that small, quadrupedal heteromyid and murid species increased in the absence of larger bipedal competitors, while, at the same time, insectivores (Onychomys torridus and O.
Chesterton was at first influenced by Belloc's ideas, but the mutual admiration eventually developed into a friendship and life-long intellectual cooperation which George Bernard Shaw saw as a "most dangerous conspiracy," a quadrupedal chimera he named "Chester-Belloc" This fire-breathing monster with a lion's head attacked many fads and misconceptions, including Shaw's progressive Fabian socialism and evolutionism as well as H.