steno-comb. form

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 934/1 Similarly, in regard to depth, species have been classed as eurybathic and stenobathic.

1975 B. Fell Introd. Marine Biol. xi. 92 A deep-water stenobathic species, when brought too rapidly to the surface in a net, suffers disruption of the internal organs.

1813 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Mankind (1826) I. ii. iii. 173 I propose to divide the varieties of the skull into three classes... 1...mesobregmate..2. Stenobregmate: the section of the vertex narrowed; the skull having the appearance of lateral compression,..3. Platybregmate.

1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) Stenocardia, angina pectoris.

1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 912 (note) The symptoms [are] those of increasing ‘stenocardia’.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 54 Stenocardiac and cardiac muscle failure.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 754 Morphine may be given..if there is stenocardial pain.

1866 J. A. Meigs Observ. Cranial Forms Amer. Aborigines 36 Narrow Oval Form (Stenocephalic).

1878 R. T. H. Bartley tr. P. Topinard Anthropol. Index Stenocephaly.

1848 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 7) Stenochoria,..contraction of the vagina.

1859 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. Stenochoria..a diminution of the lachrymal passages.

1901 W. A. N. Dorland Illustr. Med. Dict. (ed. 2) Stenochoria, stenosis, or narrowing.

1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. Steno Compressor.

1901 W. A. N. Dorland Illustr. Med. Dict. (ed. 2) Stenocompressor, an instrument for closing the opening of Stenson's duct during dental operations.

1859 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. Stenocoriasis,..contraction of the pupil.

1865 H. Falconer in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 21 259 I propose therefore to substitute..for the latter [Hippopotamine type] ‘Stenocoronine’ or narrow-crowned type.

1904 Biometrika 3 240 Brachycranial, stenocranial and chamaecranial.

1871 Cassell's Nat. Hist. (1896) I. 336 The Stenoderms have been divided..into several genera... The Spectacled Stenoderm is one of the best-known species of this group.

1871 Cassell's Nat. Hist. (1896) I. 337 The Jamaican Stenoderm..is very nearly allied.

1930 Biol. Rev. V. 350 Most stenohaline marine invertebrates are poikilosmotic: their body fluids have an osmotic pressure which is the same as that of the external medium.

1973 P. A. Colinvaux Introd. Ecol. xx. 278 When temperature or salinity may fluctuate widely without seriously affecting individuals, the species are called eurythermal or euryhaline; when slight changes of temperature or salinity are fatal to animals or plants, they are called stenothermal or stenohaline.

1953 E. P. Odum Fund. Ecol. iii. 27 Stenohydric—Euryhydric refers to water.

1974 Trypanosomiasis & Leishmaniasis: Ciba Found. Symp. 1973 56 In general, relative humidities below 60% (temperatures of 21–28°C) are deleterious for these stenohydric species.

1884 J. E. Lee tr. Römer Bone Caves of Ojcow 32 [In this scull] there is some stenokrotaphy, the frontal margins are very smooth.

1901 22nd Ann. Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. 1900–1: Pt. 1 168 The rivers were meandered by using a prismatic compass for directions and a stenometer for distances.

1926 A. S. Pearse Animal Ecol. iii. 72 Animals that have a narrow range of foods are called stenophagous and those that eat a wide variety are euryphagous.

1976 Environmental Entomol. 5 46/2 21 (46%) of 46 identified species of phytophagous insects found associated with A[mbrosia] dumosa in southern California were stenophagous.

1904 E. H. Giglioli tr. O. Beccari Wanderings Forests Borneo xx. 305 The action of running water..has brought about a special adaptation in the leaves of many fluviatile plants. To the modification thus produced the term ‘Stenophyllism,’ or ‘narrow-leavedness,’ may be conveniently applied.

1880 Webster's Dict. Suppl. Stenophyllous, having narrow leaves.

1904 E. H. Giglioli tr. O. Beccari Wanderings Forests Borneo App. 392 Stenophyllous Plants... I have adopted this term for certain plants growing on river banks, or in the beds of torrents, which have linear or else very narrow leaves.

1932 L. A. Borradaile & F. A. Potts Invertebrata xii. 298 Since..the phyllopodium possesses the same two rami, and bears them, though not as a distal fork, yet in the same way as a great number of limbs of the first type, it is well not to use a name which might imply that there is a constant difference in respect of the rami between the limbs of the two types. We shall therefore call the first type the stenopodium, referring to its usually slender form.

1967 P. A. Meglitsch Invertebr. Zool. xviii. 755/1 A good case can be made for thinking of stenopodia as the more primitive form of crustacean appendage.

1861 R. E. Grant Tabular View Divisions Animal Kingdom 14 Vespertilionida... Anhistophorous, narrow-jawed (stenorhynchous), long-headed (macrocephalous).

1888 Rep. Sci. Results Voy. H.M.S. Challenger: Zool. XXIX. 421 Such animals are distinguished as eurytherm, in opposition to stenotherm animals, which can live only in warm or only in cold water.

1964 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 2 284 Most stenosaline organisms live either in the ocean (polystenosaline forms) or in fresh water (oligostenosaline forms). These terms are analogous to steno- or eurytherm and just as relative in their meaning.

1926 A. S. Pearse Animal Ecol. ii. 34 Animals are often classified into two groups: stenothermic and eurythermic, the former being restricted to a narrow range of temperature changes and the latter having ability to live through a wide range.

1965 B. E. Freeman tr. A. Vandel Biospeleol. xxiii. 384 Summer cysts containing the adults of stenothermic species [of copepods] are formed during the warm season.

1881 K. Semper Animal Life 105 We shall..do well..to designate animals, according to Möbius, the former as eurythermal, the latter as stenothermal.

1937 Brit. Birds 30 247 It should be borne in mind that whereas the adult bird is stenothermal (warm-blooded), in the young the thermotaxic arrangements are undeveloped.

1973 P. A. Colinvaux Introd. Ecol. xx. 279 Between about 55°C and 40°C the algal mats are largely made up of filamentous blue-green algae, but these plants are rather stenothermal and will not actively grow at temperatures below 40°C.

1859 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. Stenothorax,..one disposed to phthisis, having a strait, short chest.

1901 W. A. N. Dorland Illustr. Med. Dict. (ed. 2) Stenothorax, abnormal narrowness of the chest.

1949 J. H. Kenneth Henderson's Dict. Sci. Terms (ed. 4) Stenotopic, having a restricted range of geographical distribution.

1967 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 5 546 This species is also stenotopic; it needs exposed rocky shores, but where the wave-action is not too strong.

1976 Nature 24 June 695/1 A major terminal extinction event..will tend selectively to eliminate the larger, more specialised, more stenotopic species.