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QUADRATE [4 records]

Record 1 1989-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
DEF

more-or-less four-sided, resembling a square or rectangle.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés

Spanish

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Record 2 1978-07-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
OBS

(...) square or approximately square in form (...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
OBS

Qui a des facettes carrées.

Spanish

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Record 3 1977-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Anatomy
  • Bones and Joints
CONT

[The] "quadrate" ... forms the upper part of the hinge of the jaw of bony fishes, amphibians, reptiles, and birds.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anatomie animale
  • Os et articulations
CONT

[...] on trouve [chez les poissons osseux] un petit fragment ossifié qui sert, juste derrière le ptérygoïde et le quadrato-jugal, c'est-à-dire sur le bord inféro-postérieur de la fosse sous-temporale, à l'articulation de la mandibule. Il porte le nom d'os carré.

Spanish

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Record 4 1977-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Anatomy
  • Bones and Joints
OBS

One of a pair of chondral bones found at the posterior outer angle of the cranium, in vertebrates other than mammals. It is the homologue of the incus bone of mammals ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anatomie animale
  • Os et articulations
OBS

[La] "partie postérieure" ossifiée [de la "mâchoire supérieure primaire", qui est appelée le] "carré" s'écarte du neurocrâne et prend contact avec la partie postérieure du toit dermique entre le squamosal et le quadratojugal.

Spanish

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