nares
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When arctic seals huff and puff, icy air and water molecules fly up their nares and into a labyrinth of nose bones called maxilloturbinates.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 14, 2023
Air exits the nasal cavities via the internal nares and moves into the pharynx.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Curves for stool, buccal mucosa and anterior nares suggest that the proportion of gene-to-taxa discovery has stabilized.
From Nature ● Jun. 13, 2012
Even tonsillitis can be described as a malign hypertrophied condition that affects nares and pharynx and may result in paraphonia clausa.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Their beaks were ebony black with saffron-yellow nares.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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The alar cartilage consists of the apex of the nose; it surrounds the naris.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Beneath the naris the maxilla extends as a broad tapering shelf, the ventral surface of which articulates with the premaxilla.
From Two New Pelycosaurs from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma by Richard C. Fox
At the posteroventral corner of the naris a foramen opens onto the lateral surface of the maxilla.
From Two New Pelycosaurs from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma by Richard C. Fox
It is slightly anterodorsal to the internal naris and 4.0 mm. lateral to the midline.
From A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas by Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth) Eaton
A groove, but not a complete division of the nasal, is present above the left naris of one specimen.
From Morphological Variation in a Population of the Snake, Tantilla gracilis Baird and Girard by Charles J. Cole