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The upper tusks are bent upwards in males, and are regularly ground against the lower ones to produce sharp edges.
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The upper canines form sharp distinctive tusks that curve outward and upward.
Tusks were once thought to be used to dig out prey from the seabed, but analyses of abrasion patterns on the tusks indicate they are dragged through the sediment while the upper edge of the snout is used for digging.
Adult males develop tusks, continuously growing teeth that protrude from the mouth, from their upper and lower canine teeth.
The African elephant ( Loxodonta africana ) is a very large herbivore having thick, almost hairless skin, a long, flexible, prehensile trunk, upper incisors forming long curved tusks of ivory, and large, fan-shaped ears.
Mandibular symphyses ( the lower jaw-bone ) is very long and curved downward, which, with the backward curved tusks, is a distinguishing feature of the group ; it possessed no upper tusks.
The tusks, more often the upper set, are worked much in the way of elephant tusks with all designs scaled down.
* Walrus tusk: Walrus have two large tusks ( elongated canine teeth ) projecting downward from the upper jaw.
Like the Chinese water deer, a cervid, they have no antlers, but the males do have enlarged upper canines, forming sabre-like tusks.
Their dentition shows traces of vesitigial central incisors in the upper jaw, and the third incisors are developed into canine-like tusks.
In elephants, the upper incisors are modified into curved tusks, just as is the case with Narwhals, where normally one of them develops into a straight and twisted tusk.
The North Sulawesi Babirusa is known for its two pairs of tusks ; both its upper and its lower pairs of canine teeth are greatly enlarged, and curve up and back towards the head.
The early gomphotheres, such as Phiomia, had elongated upper and lower jaws, with relatively short tusks.
The upper tusks are for defense while the lower tusks are offensive weapons.
They are best known for the large, canine-like tusks ( often called caniniforms ) in both upper and lower jaws.
Another well-known toxodontid is Nesodon, a medium-sized Miocene toxodontid descended from Proadinotherium which had converted its second upper incisors into tusks.
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The line of an eyebrow, the color of the skin, a ghazal from Hafiz, the purity of spring water, the long afternoon among the boughs which crowd the upper story of a pavilion -- these things are noticed, judged, and valued.
By fixing the tax rate in advance of spending, upper limits are set on expenditures.
( Note how strongly the upper lats and serratus are worked in this fine exercise because of the pin-point concentration of force which the dumbbell variation affords ).
The Af layers are stacked normal to the ( 111 ) axis with the lower oxygens of one layer directly above the upper oxygens of the neighboring lower layer, in such a manner that the repeat is every three layers.
( 3 ) hydrogen atoms are asymmetrically placed, either randomly or in an ordered way, so that some hydrogen atoms are closer to the upper oxygen atoms while others are closer to the lower oxygen atoms.
The natural anatomical and physiological defensive features of the upper respiratory tract, such as the turbinates of the nose and the cilia of the trachea and larger bronchi, are capable of impinging out the larger particles to which we are ordinarily exposed in our daily existence.
Accordingly, maturity level ratings by means of the upper portion and lower portion of the Chart, respectively, should be somewhat similar since Skeletal Age assessments are dependent upon Onsets during infancy and upon Completions during adolescence.
They are mostly upper-middle- and lower-middle-class people, with a few in the upper class.
On the upper Mississippi the Illinois post was to be established near Kaskaskia, and dependent posts were to be built on the Missouri, `` where there are mines in abundance ''.
At one extreme are the systems of upper New York State, where libraries in two or more counties combine to serve a large, sparsely populated area.
There are two beads on each rod in the upper deck and five beads each in the bottom for both decimal and hexadecimal computation.
They are likely to have lived on areas of the ocean floor that received little or no light and fed on detritus that descended from upper layers of the sea to the bottom.
They are distinguished by the nerve cells affected ( upper and lower motor neuron ), and the symptoms that result from this damage:
The real numbers are uniquely picked out ( up to isomorphism ) by the properties of a Dedekind complete ordered field, meaning that any nonempty set of real numbers with an upper bound has a least upper bound.
Their leaves are of variable size and alternately arranged, or alternate with the upper leaves becoming nearly opposite.
Stairs leading to upper levels are sometimes built on the outside, and balconies are sometimes enclosed.
Almost all of Agatha Christie's books are whodunits, focusing on the British middle and upper classes.
The remains of the acropolis fortifications are very interesting, including roads and ditches hewn in the rock ; but beyond ruins of two churches, a gatehouse, and a fine keep built by Thoros I There are no notable structures in the upper town.
All identifiable fossils of Albertosaurus sarcophagus are known from the upper Horseshoe Canyon Formation in Alberta.
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As strength improves start in a standing position with legs wide apart and upper body bent forward.
In 1996, Thomas Lehman and Langston rejected the scavenging hypothesis, pointing out that the lower jaw bent so strongly downwards that even when it closed completely a gap of over five centimeters remained between it and the upper jaw, very different from the hooked beaks of specialized scavenging birds.
* A pancake spin is a difficulty variation on a sit spin in which the free leg is canted towards the body and upper body is bent over it, forming the illusion of the skater's body as a pancake.
* Spinnerbait, pieces of wire bent at about a 60 degree angle with a hook on the lower end and a flashy spinner mechanism on the upper end.
Beginning in the 1990s, development in Channahon took on a more upper middle-class bent, with subdivisions sprouting in the former gravel quarrying and dairy farming areas near the I & M Canal in the village's western areas, and a widely acclaimed, award winning public golf course opening in the hilly southeastern area of the village near I-55.
In Scandinavian folk dance ( e. g. the polska, pols, and hambo ) there are variations on shoulder-waist position in which the leader's left hand is on the follower's shoulder, upper arm, or elbow, and in the latter case the follower's right arm is outstretched with the hand just above the leader's sharply bent elbow.
Bowie knives often had an upper guard that bent forward at an angle ( an S-guard ) intended to catch an opponent's blade or provide protection to the owner's hand during parries and corps-a-corps.
The upper has a solid bent gate for the rope and the lower a wire gate for it.
Before the kick the knee is maximally bent and the upper leg is rotating along its axis to its extreme outer position and the lower leg is twisted to extreme, at the end of the kick the ankles are maximally turned to the inside so that the soles clap together to achieve a nozzle effect like in a jelly fish.
There is a bent rod music stand that pegs into two holes on the upper surface.
The lower inner petals are bent backwards so that the upper inner petals appear longer.
Wences would create Johnny's face on stage to open his act, placing his thumb next to, and in front of, his bent first finger ; the first finger would be the upper lip, and the thumb the lower lip.
The dentition of the lungfish is unusual: two incisors, restricted to the upper jaw, are flat, slightly bent, and denticulated on the hind margin.
The main bridge has a slightly bent upper surface which results in a droning sound, because the vibrating span of the strings quivers ever so slightly.
* Spinnerbait are pieces of wire bent at about a 60 degree angle with a hook on the lower end and a flashy spinner mechanism on the upper end.
" A fragment of Al-Biruni preserved in the work of another author adds a few more characteristics: " the horn is conical, bent back towards the head, and longer than a span ... the animal's ears protrude on both sides like those of a donkey, and ... its upper lip forms into a finger-shape, like the protrusion on the end of an elephant's trunk.
The larger was constructed as follows: two rows of osiers were thrust in the ground opposite each other, the upper ends being bent in to each other ( ad medium invicem reflexa ) and tied with cords, whereupon the frame so made was turned upside down.
It begins with lying with the back on the floor, typically with the arms across the chest or hands behind the head and the knees bent in an attempt to reduce stress on the back muscles and spine, and then elevating both the upper and lower vertebrae from the floor until everything superior to the buttocks is not touching the ground.
At the end of the flower the upper petals are only bent back a short way, whereas the lower petals are bent almost back on themselves.
When flexed ( bent inward ) at the elbow joint to the maximum possible extent, the humerus ( upper arm bone ) and radius ( a lower arm bone ) formed a 53 ° angle.
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