Proboscis: alternatives and connections

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an…

Ladle-shaped; -- applied to two small cartilages of the larynx, and also to the glands, muscles, etc., connected with them. The cartil…

Something attached; some adjunct attached to an instrument, machine, or other object; as, a sewing machine attachment (i. e., a device…

Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are at…

That part of an organ by which it is attached to another more central organ.

An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air throug…

A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.

The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mou…

To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the vari…

The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more gene…

the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ

the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ

the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ

the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ

the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ

the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ

A combining form denoting the head, of the head, connected with the head; as, cephalosome, cephalopod.

Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging mach…