dorsal position

This was done to enhance the downward field of fire from the dorsal position.

Due to the dorsal position it gives the fish lateral stability.

However, they share with heterostracans the relatively dorsal position of these openings.

A second rear gunner had a dorsal position just slightly aft.

Manually operated gun turrets were provided in the nose and dorsal positions.

It carried a crew of three, with a pilot and two gunners, in nose and dorsal positions.

Prior to copulation the male clasps the female with his clasping organ, assuming a dorsal position.

They result from the beetle's efforts to get itself back into take-off position for flight when it has been in either lateral or dorsal position.

The fecal groove spirals across to the dorsal position as it reaches the thoracic region.

Due to technical problems with the armament installation, many aircraft went to operational units with only a light machine gun in the dorsal position.

Two gunners, each armed with a single machine gun sat in nose and dorsal positions, while a radio operator sat inside the fuselage.

After this period they were buried on their backs (dorsal position), and from the Fifth Dynasty the bodies were always fully extended.

The siphuncle starts off ventrally, like that in other ammonoids, but after the first few septa migrates to a definite and stable dorsal position.

Female survivorship of attacks by predators is significantly enhanced by pairing, largely because the dorsal position of the male functions well as a shield.

Defensive armament consisted of three machine guns, situated at the nose, at a dorsal position and within a retractable ventral position.

Armament: four 7.9 mm Vickers F machine guns on ring mountings in fuselage nose and in a dorsal position.

There were manually operated turrets at the nose and dorsal positions, as well as a semi-retractable dustbin-style ventral turret.

The original Wellington II prototype was converted with the installation of a 40 mm (1.57 in) Vickers S gun in the dorsal position.

While the first mate is engaged in feeding and is forced to vacate the dorsal position, the intruder can clasp the female's abdomen and insert his genitalia.

Normally one MG 17 would be installed in the nose, one in the ventral position, dorsal position and one in each waist window position.

The intercentrum is the larger of the two bones in rhachitomes, while the pleurocentra are present as two smaller bones in a dorsal position between the intercentra.