The skeleton of sponges consists of microscopic calcareous or silicious spicules.

The human skeleton consists of both fused and individual bones supported and supplemented by ligaments, tendons, muscles and cartilage.

The epidermis ( skin ) itself consists of cells responsible for the support and maintenance of the skeleton, as well as pigment cells, mechanoreceptor cells ( which detect motion on the animal's surface ), and sometimes gland cells which secrete sticky fluids or even toxins.

The laryngeal skeleton consists of nine cartilages: three single ( epiglottic, thyroid and cricoid ) and three paired ( arytenoid, corniculate, and cuneiform ).

This hydrostatic skeleton consists of an extensible body wall surrounded by a fluid-filled body cavity.

The holotype specimen, IGM 100 / 11, consists of a partial skeleton including the skull and lower jaws.

The axial skeleton consists of the 80 bones along the central axis of the human body.

The human axial skeleton consists of 80 different bones.

It consists of a partial skeleton lacking the skull but including parts of the vertebral column, the forelimbs, the pelvis and the hindlimbs.

As a result an average adult skeleton consists of 206 bones.

The holotype IGM 100 / 1127, consists of an almost complete skeleton found together with another specimen, IGM 100 / 1002.

A snake skeleton consists primarily of the skull, vertebrae, and ribs, with only vestigial remnants of the limbs.

It consists of a partial skeleton that is largely disarticulated, of a subadult individual.

It consists of a partial skeleton with skull and lower jaws.

It consists of a rather complete and articulated skeleton lacking the skull and lower jaws.

It consists of a very fragmentary skeleton including teeth, skull elements, two vertebrae, ribs, tail elements and a hand.

The problem of body disposal consists of two parts: disposal of the soft tissues, which will rapidly decompose, and of the skeleton, which will remain intact for thousands of years under certain conditions.

There is a common mis-statement in the literature that the skeleton consists of points which are " locally maximum " in the distance transform.

It consists of a partial, disarticulated skeleton, most parts of which had already weathered away at the moment of discovery.

It consists of a partial skeleton, lacking the skull, which includes a nearly complete pelvis with part of the right ischium missing.

It consists of a partially articulated largely complete skeleton with skull of a juvenile individual.

The holotype specimen was discovered in Lesotho and consists of a partial skull and skeleton ( UCL B54 ).

It consists of an almost complete skeleton with skull, that is today mounted in the Nigerien capital Niamey ; the Museum national d ' histoire naturelle displays a cast.

The Conservatory of Flowers consists of a wood structural skeleton with glass walls set on a raised masonry foundation.

Echinoderms have a mesodermal skeleton composed of calcareous plates or ossicles.

In pelagic species such as Pelagothuria natatrix ( Order Elasipodida, family Pelagothuriidae ), the skeleton and a calcareous ring are absent.

Like bats and birds that independently developed the ability to fly, different sponges developed the ability to build a calcareous skeleton independently and during different times in Earth history.

The suborder Scleraxonia variety of gorgonians are supported by a skeleton of tightly grouped calcareous spicules.

Hexactinellid sponges are sponges with a skeleton made of four-and / or six-pointed siliceous spicules, often referred to as glass sponges.

Some species have an internal skeleton consisting of two star-like siliceous elements that has an unknown function, and can be found as microfossils.

In one stage of their life cycle, they produce a siliceous skeleton, composed of a network of bars and spikes arranged to form an internal basket.

The red blood cell membrane is composed of 3 layers: the glycocalyx on the exterior, which is rich in carbohydrates ; the lipid bilayer which contains many transmembrane proteins, besides its lipidic main constituents ; and the membrane skeleton, a structural network of proteins located on the inner surface of the lipid bilayer.

Breakout surgeries replace the upper half of his skeleton with an adamantium endo-skeleton ( the skeleton is shown to have a network of hydraulic servomechanisms ).

Heuristically, it would be expected that evolution between spin network states might be described by discrete combinatorial operations on the spin networks, which would then trace a two-dimensional skeleton of spacetime.

On the country network, a large number of uneconomic branch line railways have been closed since the 1950s, leaving a skeleton network by the time of the Lonie Report of 1980.

By spring it would be a skeleton.

Mr. Willis bought Zenith Plastic Products, a skeleton corporation of sorts which had undergone many vicissitudes and whose principal assets were a couple of electronics plants on Long Island engaged in working out government contracts, and installed Freddy in an executive position.

A series of linked carbon atoms is known as the carbon skeleton or carbon backbone.

It is part of the field of biomechatronics, the science of using mechanical devices with human muscle, skeleton, and nervous systems to assist or enhance motor control lost by trauma, disease, or defect.

* Every small category has a skeleton.

However, its describers claim that other features of its skeleton reflect adaptation to bipedalism on the ground as well.

More fragments were recovered in 1994, amounting to 45 % of the total skeleton.

However, Curie also worked with unshielded X-ray tubes during World War I, and analysis of her skeleton during a reburial showed a relatively low level of radioisotope burden.

Summarizes the excavation and transport by helicopter of a possible Albertosaurus skeleton ; however, per Carr & Williamson ( 2010 ), specimen may later have been assigned to Bistahieversor.

* 1990 – Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton found to date, was discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.

Pausanias also relates that a gigantic skeleton, its kneecap in diameter, appeared on the beach near Sigeion, on the Trojan coast ; these bones were identified as those of Ajax.

*(( Hollinshed )) in his oft fanciful history of England stated that at Alexander III's wedding, a horrible monster, mostly skeleton but with raw flesh, appeared at the end of the procession and caused the wedding to be hurriedly concluded.

In 2008 the skeleton of Queen Eadgyth, granddaughter of Alfred the Great was found in Magdeburg Cathedral in Germany.

Carnegie was so proud of " Dippi " that he had casts made of the bones and plaster replicas of the whole skeleton donated to several museums in Europe and South America.

The original fossil skeleton is assembled and stands in the Hall of Dinosaurs at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

More recent classifications are based on similarity of the carbon skeleton ( e. g., indole -, isoquinoline -, and pyridine-like ) or biogenetic precursor ( ornithine, lysine, tyrosine, tryptophan, etc .).

Some alkaloids do not have the carbon skeleton characteristic of their group.

This accompanied or facilitated other important evolutionary developments: the bilaterian body plan ; the coelom, an internal cavity that provided space for a circulatory system and, in some animals, formed a hydrostatic skeleton which enables worm-like animals to burrow ; metamerism, in which the body was built of repeated " modules " which could later specialize, for example the heads of most arthropods are composed of fused, specialized segments.

Some scenes, like Evil Ash walking along the graveyard while his skeleton minions come to life, blended stop-motion animation with live skeletons that were mechanically rigged, with prosthetics and visual effects.

Creodont characters were displayed in the skeleton.

Modern birds are characterised by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a lightweight but strong skeleton.

If the amino group is removed from an amino acid, it leaves behind a carbon skeleton called an α-keto acid.

This is important in the biosynthesis of amino acids, as for many of the pathways, intermediates from other biochemical pathways are converted to the α-keto acid skeleton, and then an amino group is added, often via transamination.

This tissue gives bones their smooth, white, and solid appearance, and accounts for 80 % of the total bone mass of an adult skeleton.

The purpose of remodeling is to regulate calcium homeostasis, repair micro-damaged bones ( from everyday stress ) but also to shape and sculpture the skeleton during growth.