"Mandible" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... must have plainly seen the truth of what I .. started with —that the Sperm Whale and the Right Whale have almost entirely different heads. To sum up, then; in the Right Whale's there is no great well of sperm; no ivory teeth at all; no long, slender mandible of a lower jaw, like the Sperm Whale's. Nor in the Sperm Whale are there any of those blinds of bone; no huge lower lip; and scarcely anything of a tongue. Again, the Right Whale has two external spout-holes, the Sperm Whale only one. Look your last, now, on these venerable ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville
... many species in all the orders present differences, of which the meaning is not understood. One curious case is that of a beetle (Fig. 10), the male of which has left mandible much enlarged; so that the mouth is greatly distorted. In another Carabidous beetle, Eurygnathus (9. 'Insecta Maderensia,' 1854, page 20.), we have the case, unique as far as known to Mr. Wollaston, of the ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin
... cultivation of "sea-island cotton." The water teemed with fish, and birds innumerable came flying round us. The most remarkable of the latter were the scissor-bills, with black plumage, which went skimming along the surface, scooping up with their long lower mandible any unwary mollusc or fish of small size which came within their reach, and uttering every instant loud and discordant cries. Lejoillie told us that they were of the gull tribe, about twenty inches in length. The peculiarity of their beak ...
— In the Wilds of Florida - A Tale of Warfare and Hunting • W.H.G. Kingston
... not often the sole cause of dislocation, although, as has been mentioned, it plays an important role in the production of the majority of these injuries. The shoulder, mandible, and patella are, however, not infrequently displaced by muscular action alone. Acrobats sometimes acquire the power of dislocating certain joints by voluntary contraction ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles |
