"muscle" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The paired pedal protractor and retractor muscles operate the animal's foot.
- In gastropods, for example, the retractor muscles connect to the shell via tendon cells.
- If disturbed by touch, water movement, or shadow, the tentacular crown can be quickly withdrawn entirely within the tube, by retractor muscles.
- Male part of the genitalia with a single retractor muscle, without flagellum or caecum.
- A set of retractor muscles help pull the proboscis back inside the sheath once feeding is completed.
- There are no muscles attaching them to the basal disc but they do have strong retractor muscles.
- As it grows it can use these threads and its retractor muscle to burrow deeper into the sediment.
- The introvert can be retracted into the trunk by the retractor muscles of which there are usually four but occasionally three.
- However, regardless the number, larval retractor muscles make no contribution to the post-metamorphic columellar muscle in opisthobranchs.
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