constrictor

How To Use constrictor In A Sentence

• Pupillary size is controlled by the action of the constrictor and dilator smooth muscles of the iris.
• stress is a vasoconstrictor
• The emperor boa, or boa constrictor as well as all the others to which the name boa applies are, according to Cuvier, natives of America. Forest & Frontiers
• Pythons are constrictors, meaning they rely on strength, not venom, to kill their prey.
• The constrictor muscle is supplied by the parasympathetic nervous system, and the dilator by the sympathetic nervous system.
• He rode snakes, one foot each on a huge cobra's back, and jewelsnakes and small constrictors and other serpents adorned his body.
• We did one project on rainforest snakes, covering everything from constrictors to vipers.
• The more ferocious snakes here include fer-de-lance Bothrops asper, coral snake Micrurus spp., boa constrictor Boa constrictor, palm pit-viper Bothriechis spp. and bushmaster Lachesis muta. Canaima National Park, Venezuela
• Included are those fibers joining the inferior constrictor of the pharynx to the thyroid gland.
• Twice Flandry lay prone and watched combats: bugs swarming over a walking red globe with lobsterish claws; a constrictor shape entangled with a mobile battering ram. A Circus of Hells