In some later pterosaurs, the backbone over the shoulders fused into a structure known as a notarium, which served to stiffen the torso during flight, and provide a stable support for the scapula ( shoulder blade ).

In the small Scottish village of Kinloch Rannoch, a local myth to this effect concerns a local hill that apparently resembles the head, shoulders, and torso of a man, and has therefore been termed ' the sleeping giant '.

The default uniform design for humanoids was a green section covering the torso and shoulders, black arms and leggings, green boots, white gloves, green domino mask, and a chest symbol of a stylized Green Lantern icon on a white circle.

Above it, both sexes tend to wear a cloak, laid across the shoulders or wound around the torso.

My torso was twisted and my shoulders were dislocated from their joints from time to time.

* A harness that the diver wears with straps around the torso and over the shoulders.

The snake cascades down the boy's shoulders and wraps around his torso like a blanket.

The pilot manipulates these flight characteristics by changing the shape of his torso, arching or bending at the shoulders, hips, and knees, and by changing the angle of attack in which the wingsuit flies in the relative wind, and by the amount of tension applied to the fabric wings of the suit.

They tend to have broad shoulders ; narrow waists, ankles, and wrists ; and a V-shaped torso.

The attacker then falls forward so that the torso of the opponent bounces off the top ring rope, and uses this momentum to quickly lift the opponent overhead once more and falls backwards, driving the back and shoulders of the opponent into the ground.

In foil, the lamé extends on the torso from the shoulders to the groin area, including the back.

In sabre, the lamé covers both arms, the torso from the shoulders to the waist, and the back.

These effects include growth of the penis and testes, accelerated growth, development of pubic hair, and other androgenic hair of face, torso, and limbs, deepening of the voice, increased musculature, thickening of the jaw, prominence of the neck cartilage, and broadening of the shoulders.

The one piece construction of the skinsuit also prevents it from exposing the torso while the rider shoulders the bike.

In baseball, a submarine pitch is one in which the ball is released underhand and just above the ground, with the torso bent at a right angle and shoulders tilted so severely that they rotate around a nearly horizontal axis.

( This is in stark contrast to an underhand pitch in softball in which the torso remains upright, the shoulders are level, and the hips do not rotate.

The body is modest in size and the neck, chest, and shoulders are sized in proportion with the torso.

The primary purpose of 18th-century stays was to raise and shape the breasts, tighten the midriff, support the back, improve posture to help a woman stand straight, with the shoulders down and back, and only slightly narrow the waist, creating a ' V ' shaped upper torso over which the outer garment would be worn.

The azimuth of a sound is signalled by the difference in arrival times between the ears, by the relative amplitude of high-frequency sounds ( the shadow effect ), and by the asymmetrical spectral reflections from various parts of our bodies, including torso, shoulders, and pinnae.

Together with other direction-selective reflections at the head, shoulders and torso, they form the outer ear transfer functions.

My torso was twisted and my shoulders were dislocated from their joints from time to time.

Women, on average, tend to be attracted to men who are taller than they are, display a high-degree of facial symmetry, masculine facial dimorphism, and who have broad shoulders, a relatively narrow waist, and V-shaped torso.

Women, on average, tend to be more attracted to men who have a relatively narrow waist, a V-shaped torso, and broad shoulders, are taller than they are, and display a high-degree of facial symmetry, and relatively feminine facial dimorphism.

Born in New York City, Indelicato was a stocky man with broad shoulders, a sculpted torso and dark hair.

Place your Power Stands in position and adjust their height so that this will correspond to the height of your shoulders when you are in a deep leg split as for a heavy Clean.

Cretans are fiercely proud of their island and customs, and men often don elements of traditional dress in everyday life: knee-high black riding boots ( stivania ), vráka breeches tucked into the boots at the knee, black shirt and black headdress consisting of a fishnet-weave kerchief worn wrapped around the head or draped on the shoulders ( the sariki ).

The double bass also differs from members of the violin family in that the shoulders are typically sloped, the back is often angled ( both to allow easier access to the instrument, particularly in the upper range ), and machine tuners are always fitted.

Pairs lifts differ from dance lifts most notably in that dancers are not allowed to lift their partners above their shoulders.

These roads are built to British standards with a maximum of three lanes with hard shoulders.

In the Prose Edda and the Third Grammatical Treatise, the two ravens are described as perching on Odin's shoulders.

A harmonica holder clamps the harmonica between two metal brackets, which are attached to a curved loop of metal that rests on the shoulders.

The shoulders are slightly behind the pelvis, and the arms are in full contraction with the elbows bent and hands against the chest below the nipples.

These portraits are a unique example of art during Jahangir's reign because before, and for sometime after, faces were not drawn full, head-on and including the shoulders as well as the head as these drawings are.

Reflecting the changed mood, the Conservative M. P Alfred Duff Cooper wrote in a letter to The Times :“ Some of us are getting rather tired of the sanctimonious attitude which seeks to take upon our shoulders the blame for every crime committed in Europe.

The Knights are led by a man who is approximately 12 feet tall with disproportionately short arms and reindeer antlers inserted into his helmet ( played by Michael Palin standing on a ladder ; the original screenplay suggested that he be played by " Mike standing on John's shoulders ").

Although the figures are seated with their knees and torsos facing front, their shoulders and heads rotate in three-quarter profile toward the center of the page, the chess board, and each other.

Skeletons of longbow archers are recognisably adapted, with enlarged left arms and often bone spurs on left wrists, left shoulders and right fingers.

Though unique for each pope, the arms are always surmounted by the two keys in saltire ( i. e., crossed over one another so as to form an X ) behind the escutcheon ( shield ) ( one silver key and one gold key, tied with a red cord ), and above them a silver triregnum with three gold crowns and red infulae ( lappets — two strips of fabric hanging from the back of the triregnum which fall over the neck and shoulders when worn ).

His feast day is celebrated annually in Nola during " La Festa dei Gigli " ( the Feast of the Lilies ), in which Gigli, several large statues in honor of the saint, placed on towers, are carried upon the shoulders of the faithful around the city.

Men are walking by two with their tools-rods on their shoulders.

If a wrestler's shoulders are down ( both shoulders touching the mat ) and any part of the opponent's body is lying over the wrestler, it is completely legal to start a three count.

Occasionally, there are instances where a pinfall is made where both wrestlers ' shoulders were on the mat for the three count.

Many of the injuries that occur in pro wrestling are shoulders, knee, back, neck, and rib injuries.

The joints included in DAS28 are ( bilaterally ): proximal interphalangeal joints ( 10 joints ), metacarpophalangeal joints ( 10 ), wrists ( 2 ), elbows ( 2 ), shoulders ( 2 ) and knees ( 2 ).