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FURCATION [4 records]

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Record 1 2015-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Dentistry
CONT

A furcation is an anatomic area where the roots of a multirooted tooth start to diverge.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dentisterie
CONT

La partie anatomique des dents multiradiculées où les racines se divisent à partir d'un tronc commun s'appelle la furcation.

Spanish

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Record 2 1977-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[Ammonites of the family Morphoceratidae are] planulates and sphaerocones, and combinations of both, with [a] mixture of stephanoceratacean and perisphinctacean characters. All show [a] peculiar aberrant bundling or furcation of the ribs, generally truncated very obliquely by constrictions, and most have a ventral smooth band or sulcus. Sutures relatively simple, with suspensive lobe not retracted(...) "M. Jur.(U. Baj-L. Bath) ".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Les Ammonites de la famille des Morphoceratidae ont] une bande siphonale lisse, inconstante, des constrictions périodiques, [et] un péristome pourvu d'apophyses jugales ou ventrales (...)

Spanish

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Record 3 1977-07-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[Ammonites of the family stephanoceratidae are] planulates and coronates with sharp ribbing, in many tuberculate at [the] point of furcation. "M. Jur.(M. Baj.-Bath.), ?M. Jur.(Callov.) ".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[La famille des stephanoceratidae est une] famille [d'ammonites] peu étendue, relativement homogène. [Les] formes [sont] évolutes, à croissance lente; [les] tours [sont] déprimés, typiquement ornés de côtes primaires nombreuses portant un tubercule medio-latéral mammiforme sous lequel elles se ramifient en deux à cinq côtes secondaires traversant orthogonalement la région ventrale, élargie. [L']Ouverture [est] simple, proverse, légèrement contractée.

Spanish

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Record 4 1977-07-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[Ammonites of the subfamily ataxioceratinae are] characterized by dense, fine, many-branched ribbing, which may or may not develop [a] peculiar double furcation(...), but typically is not virgatotome(...) "U. Jur.(L. Kimm.-M. Kimm.) "(...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Les ammonites de la sous-famille des ataxioceratinae sont des] formes discoïdes, à costulation typiquement fine. [L']ombilic [est] moyen. [L']ornementation [est] spécialisée (...) [ils n'ont pas] de sillon ventral et [ont une] tendance à des formes terminales lisses.

Spanish

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