pachydermal

Example Sentences

• "At that point of time the skin is macroscopically seen to be slightly thickened and is in course of transition to the pachydermal stage."
• "Periosteal changes occur in trauma, psoriatic arthritis (above ankle), HPOA, and pachydermal periostitis."
• "In addition, the stooped posture progresses to the point where ribs rest on the iliac crest, and circumferential pachydermal skin folds develop at the pelvis and ribs."
• "The anterior teeth are, however, displaced before the posterior ones are developed, although they have no vertical successors, which circumstance is also characteristic of the Elephant : the shape, the structure, and the mode of implantation of the molars of the Manatee quite accord with the pachydermal type, and herein more especially with the Dinotherium and Tapir."
• "As far as the teeth, jaws, and other scattered bones enable the comparative anatomist to decide, the nototherium manifests pachydermal modifications of the marsupial type ; hence the inference that' Australia (whose largest native quadruped is now the kangaroo) was, immediately preceding the current era, inhabited by a marsupial vegetable-feeder as large as the rhinoceros."
• "Though, owing to the size of the bird, the bones of Megalapteryx are somewhat more massive than those of Apteryx, nevertheless they are easily distinguished by their elegant form from those of the Dinornithidae, which, even the most slender forms, have all a more pachydermal type than this new species."