A muscular hydrostat is a biological structure found in animals. It is used to manipulate items (including food) or to move its host about and consists...

sometimes utilize a modified hydrostatic skeleton called a muscular hydrostat. Muscular hydrostats do not contain a fluid-filled cavity. These structures...

body symmetry, a prominent head, and a set of arms or tentacles (muscular hydrostats) modified from the primitive molluscan foot. Fishers sometimes call...

are two main types of muscle architecture. A third subcategory, muscular hydrostats, can also be considered. Architecture type is determined by the direction...

aquatic vegetation. The snout makes up a muscular hydrostat, a biological structure that relies on muscular pressure and muscle contractions to manipulate...

maxillary and facial nerves – lines each side of the appendage. As a muscular hydrostat, the trunk moves through finely controlled muscle contractions, working...

more pairs. Anatomically, the tentacles of animals work mainly like muscular hydrostats. Most forms of tentacles are used for grasping and feeding. Many...

and surrounding their beaks. These appendages, which function as muscular hydrostats, have been variously termed arms, legs or tentacles. In the scientific...

in diameter.: 40–41  Lacking skeletal support, the arms work as muscular hydrostats and feature longitudinal, transverse, and circular muscles around...

lower pair are used to detect chemicals. Both pairs of tentacles are muscular hydrostats which can be fully retracted when necessary to avoid damage. If the...

tentacles surround the mouth; each appendage takes the form of a muscular hydrostat and is flexible and prehensile, usually bearing disc-like suckers...

transfer spermatophores to the female. Structurally, hectocotyli are muscular hydrostats. Depending on the species, the male may use it merely as a conduit...

muscular hydrostat, which consists of a tightly packed array of three-dimensional muscle fibers surrounding a hydrostatic body. Examples of muscular hydrostats...

Santa Cruz Murano, Emi Z.; Stone, Maureen; Honda, Kiyoshi (2005), "Muscular hydrostat mechanism for lip protrusion in speech", The Journal of the Acoustical...

tunge and tonge as late as the sixteenth century. The tongue is a muscular hydrostat that forms part of the floor of the oral cavity. The left and right...

modeling the tongue which, unlike joints of the jaw and arms, is a muscular hydrostat—like an elephant trunk—which lacks joints. Because of the different...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lingual may refer to: Tongue, a muscular hydrostat on the floors of the mouths of most vertebrates which manipulates...

Motor protein Mucous membrane Mucous membrane of the soft palate Muscular hydrostat Muscular layer Muscularis mucosae Myelin-associated glycoprotein Myelin...