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How To Use forelimb In A Sentence

• Cells in the limb bud must record whether they are forelimb or hindlimb cells and so alter their programme.
• Cells in the limb bud must record whether they are forelimb or hindlimb cells and so alter their programme.
• Carapace width does not vary within a molt and is proportional to the length of the males' raptorial forelimbs, which they use in attacking other males.
• Apparently facultatively bipedal, with a toothless bird-like skull sporting large orbits, dinosaur-like cervical vertebrae possessing true pneumatic foramina, and reduced gracile forelimbs and a theropod-like pelvis, Effigia is strikingly like ornithomimosaurs (ostrich dinosaurs) in several details, mostly those concerning the skull and cervical vertebrae. Archive 2006-01-01
• The largest was Basilosaurus isis, which was up to 21 m long, with well developed five-fingered flippers on the forelimbs and the quite unexpected presence of hind legs, feet, and toes, not known previously in any archaeocete; a vestigial use may have been as claspers during aquatic mating. Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley), Egypt
• The forelimbs are to the left, and are cocked back, elbows high, with the forepaws tucked under the chest.
• In this position the gorilla's weight-line (or ‘centre of gravity’ line) falls between the forelimbs and the hind limbs.
• Replacing the mouse Prx1 forelimb regulatory region with the bat Prx1 regulatory region resulted in mice with significantly elongated forelimbs. The Panda's Thumb: Development Archives
• The pig parts vary somewhat between burials, although there is a definite preference for forelimbs or forequarters with or without elements of a head.
• We consider it far more likely that kinematic and kinetic aspects of forelimb motion coevolved.