单词 | pterotic |
释义 | pteroticn.adj.1 Zoology. A. n. A bone in the upper posterior part of the skull in many fishes and some other lower vertebrates, often bearing a distinct crest or flange; a corresponding element in the wall of the auditory capsule in some other vertebrate groups. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [noun] > bones (various types of) grate1481 pharyngeal1791 suboperculum1818 supratemporal1834 shackle-joint1837 mastoid1840 wrist1840 mastoid bone1841 subopercular1841 mesotympanic1846 suprascapula1846 hypobranchials1848 hypotympanic1848 urohyal1848 radius1854 epicentral1866 pterotic1866 mesocoracoid1868 supraclavicle1868 precoracoid1869 symplectic1870 hypural1871 mesopterygoid1871 post-temporal1871 postclavicle1872 brachial1873 urostyle1875 hypercoracoid1876 admaxillary1885 intercalarium1887 palatopterygoquadrate1888 subtectal1888 Weberian apparatus1889 Weberian ossicles1889 radial1890 supracleithrum1903 1866 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 156 178 The bone in the Sturgeon, which Professor Huxley has compared to the so-called squamosal (pterotic) of the osseous fish. 1873 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. iii. 106 In Fishes,..it appears as a bone projecting at the postero-external angle of the roof of the skull. It is called the pterotic. 1933 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 23 92 The superficial part of the pterotic is very probably equivalent to the true supratemporal of the earliest tetrapods. 1975 Nature 10 Apr. 483/3 Patterson has analysed the ossification of the brain-case and the closure of the cranial fissure with the concomitant displacement of pterotic by the epioccipital. 1992 Fishery Bull. 90 668 Larvae are recognized by the large supraorbital ridge with a single spine, laterally swollen pterotics, [etc.]. B. adj.1 Designating, relating to, or corresponding to this bone or element. ΚΠ 1866 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 156 153 A small patch of cartilage comes between the prootic and the alisphenoid, and there is no trace of the great ‘pterotic’ crest of the fish. 1899 Science 21 Apr. 563/2 The nature of the pterotic bone. 1979 Nature 30 Aug. 832/1 The membranous wall of the utricle is in contact with these pro-otic and pterotic bullae, and thus might be stimulated directly by vibrations of this compressible system. 1995 Jrnl. Vertebr. Paleontol. 15 482 The absence of the supratemporal commissure is a synapomorphy of catfishes, as well as the presence of the pterotic branch. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † pteroticadj.2 Obsolete. rare. Winged. ΚΠ 1884 R. D. Blackmore Hist. Sir T. Upmore II. vi. 89 A frame of unusual elasticity, partaking rather of the pterotic character. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.adj.11866adj.21884 |
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