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Both nectar and ambrosia are fragrant, and may be used as perfume: in the Odyssey Menelaus and his men are disguised as seals in untanned seal skins, " and the deadly smell of the seal skins vexed us sore ; but the goddess saved us ; she brought ambrosia and put it under our nostrils.
Their back legs are slightly longer than their front legs, and their muzzles are blunt with eyes, nostrils, and ears on top of their heads.
There are two side channels, the rasanā and lalanā, which start at their respective nostrils and then travel down to the lower body.
The eyes, ears, and nostrils of hippos are placed high on the roof of the skull.
The nostrils are closed during submergence.
There are two nostrils along with four other external openings that appear between the premaxilla and lateral rostral bones.
On the anterior side of the head are the maxilla and lower mandible for the mouth, a pair of nostrils, and two lidless eyes.
Her nostrils are also broad, her mouth fairly wide.
The nostrils are located on top of the head and can be closed using valves.
A Mating Couple at the Duisburg Zoo in Germany. The orbits and nostrils of a pygmy hippo are much less pronounced, an adaptation from spending less time in deep water ( where pronounced orbits and nostrils help the common hippo breathe and see ).
The Procellariiformes are distinguished from other birds by having tubular extensions of their nostrils.
The nostrils are separated by the septum.
In such an event, the two nostrils are no longer separated and form a single larger external opening.
These internal nostrils are called " choanae " and each contain approximately 1000 strands of nasal hair.
It is possible for humans to smell different olfactory inputs in the two nostrils and experience a perceptual rivalry akin to that of binocular rivalry when there are two different inputs to the two eyes.
They are at several places contiguous with skin: at the nostrils, the mouth, the lips, the eyelids, the ears, the genital area, and the anus.
The atmosphere external to the articulatory stem may also be consisted an air cavity whose potential connecting points with respect to the body are the nostrils and the lips.
This type of anosmia is normally only detected if both of the nostrils are tested separately.
Using this method of testing each nostril separately will often show a reduced or even completely absent sense of smell in either one nostril or both, something which is often not revealed if both nostrils are simultaneously tested.
Sea turtles possess a salt excretory gland at the corner of the eye, in the nostrils, or in the tongue, depending on the species ; chelonian salt glands are found in the corner of the eyes in leatherback sea turtles.

nostrils and located
The nostrils are narrow slits located near the base of the bill, and the iris is reddish.
As in many other aquatic or amphibious tetrapods, the eyes, ears, and nostrils are all located on the same plane.
Charadriiform birds drink salt water as well as fresh water, as they possess exocrine glands located in supraorbital grooves of the skull by which sodium chloride can be excreted through the nostrils to assist the kidneys in maintaining electrolyte balance.
All caecilians possess a pair of tentacles, located between their eyes and nostrils.
Most also have laterally compressed bodies, their ventral scales are much reduced in size, their nostrils are located dorsally ( no internasal scales ) and they give birth to live young ( ovoviviparous ).
The mouth, nostrils, and five pairs of gill slits are located underneath the disc.
It has two hearts, a two meter long tongue, and its nostrils are located on its shoulders.
These glands include the sudoriferous glands ( located on the forehead, between the antlers and eyes ), the preorbital glands ( extending from the medial canthus of each eye ), the nasal glands ( located inside the nostrils ), the interdigital glands ( located between the toes ), the preputial gland ( located inside the foreskin of the penis ), the metatarsal glands ( located outside of the hind legs ), and the tarsal glands ( located inside of the hind legs ).

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The greatly elongated head is set on a short, thick neck, and the end of the snout bears a disc, which houses the nostrils.
The afflicted one is anointed with the sign of the cross on seven places: the forehead, the nostrils, the cheeks, the lips, the breast, the palms of both hands, and the back of the hands.
It has a black face with pink lips, small ears, wide nostrils, and long hair on its head that forms a part.
They have their nostrils enclosed in one or two tubes on their straight, deeply grooved bills with hooked tips.
It bore a single horn on the snout, above the nostrils, and a pair of horns approximately 1 m ( 3 ft ) long, with one above each eye.
The ears and nostrils of pygmy hippos have strong muscular valves to aid submerging underwater, and the skin physiology is dependent on the availability of water.
During Chrismation, the newly illuminate ( i. e., newly baptized ) person is anointed by making the sign of the cross with the myron on the forehead, eyes, nostrils, lips, both ears, breast, hands and feet.
The priest anoints the recipient with Chrism, making the sign of the cross on the forehead, eyes, ears, nostrils, breast, back, hands and feet using the following words each time:
A study done on patients suffering from anosmia found that when testing both nostrils, there was no anosmia revealed, however when testing each nostril individually, tests showed that that the sense of smell was usually affected in only one of the nostrils as opposed to both.
David said, ' When he looks at me and flare those nostrils ; and he would be gone ,' it would be such a wonderful thing to see this great big guy just reduced to a giggling idiot by Harry, but unfortunately, all I could do is to tell you, we had great fun doing the show ; and much of it was laughing at some silly gag that one of us had pulled on the others.
The Osprey is particularly well adapted to this diet, with reversible outer toes, sharp spicules on the underside of the toes, closable nostrils to keep out water during dives, and backwards-facing scales on the talons which act as barbs to help hold its catch.
Green Iguanas from Guatemala and southern Mexico predominantly have small horns on their snouts between their eyes and their nostrils, whereas others do not.
The air pressure from a dive could possibly damage a bird's lungs, but small bony tubercles on a falcon's nostrils guide the powerful airflow away from the nostrils, enabling the bird to breathe more easily while diving by reducing the change in air pressure.
They have nasal passages that attach to the upper bill called naricorns, although the nostrils on the albatross are on the sides of the bill.
' Brute force was supplemented with the bastinado ; sleep deprivation ; extensive solitary confinement ; glaring searchlights ; standing in one place for hours on end ; nail extractions ; snakes ( favored for use with women ); electrical shocks with cattle prods, often into the rectum ; cigarette burns ; sitting on hot grills ; acid dripped into nostrils ; near-drownings ; mock executions ; and an electric chair with a large metal mask to muffle screams while amplifying them for the victim.

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