Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word PECTINATE

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Definitions of PECTINATE

1. Resembling a comb.
2. (ambitransitive) To fit together in an alternating manner; to interlock or interdigitate.
3. (chemistry) An ester or salt formed of pectinic acid.

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Examples of Using PECTINATE in a Sentence

• It will form the lower part of the anal canal, below the pectinate line, which will be lined by stratified squamous non-keratinized (zona hemorrhagica) and stratified squamous keratinized (zona cutanea) epithelium.
• It extends from the pectinate line (anorectal junction) proximally to just proximal to the anal orifice distally (the distal termination is palpable).
• Pectinate muscles of the atria are different from the trabeculae carneae, which are found on the inner walls of both ventricles.
• Morphologically, most pergids are typically sawfly-like, but the form of the antennae varies considerably in number of segments and from simple to serrate and pectinate or even bipectinate.
• It is thick and complete behind, where the corpora cavernosa become independent and form separate crura, but it is imperfect in the front, where it consists of a series of vertical bands arranged like the teeth of a comb; it is therefore named the septum pectiniforme (pectinate septum).
• The anocutaneous line is slightly below the pectinate line and a landmark for the intermuscular border between internal and external anal sphincter muscles.
• Apart from the pectinate male antenna (2 pairs of rather short, slender pectinations to each segment) the paler, more yellowish-tinged hindwing, pale abdomen with red-brown dorsal line, dark subbasal mark along the hindmargin, more deeply angulated antemedian line, more bluish white (or violet-white) subterminal line, usually accompanied by some slight violet-grey shading, and absence of.
• Discobola specimens are recognized by their extensively maculate (blotched) or ocellate (spotted) wing markings, by the presence of an A1 cross vein on the wings, and by spined or pectinate (comb like) claws.
• THD uses a specially developed anoscope combined with a Doppler transducer to identify the hemorrhoidal arteries (originating from the superior rectal artery) 2–3 cm above the pectinate line.
• The name Ctenarchis refers to the pectinate (comblike) antenna (kteinos is Greek for a comb and -"archis", a conventional carposinid suffix).
• The third lower incisor, lower canine, and third lower premolar at least are pectinate or comblike, bearing longitudinal rows of tines or cusps, an unusual feature of colugos (the first two lower incisors are unknown in Dermotherium).
• Anoectochilus koshunensis differs from all species of Anoectochilus by the mesochil which is not afforded with pectinate lobes, but instead has broadly entire wing-shaped lobes, by the columnal appendages which are doubly folded and beak-shaped at the apex, and by the triangular lateral lobes at the mouth of the spurs.
• Centipedes in this family feature a short head with a concave labral margin bearing a row of denticles, a single dentate lamella and some pectinate lamellae on each mandible, second maxillae with strongly tapering telopodites and slightly spatulate claws, and a stout forcipular segment with short forcipules and a wide tergite; the ultimate legs usually have no pretarsus, and the female gonopods are distinct and biarticulate.
• Centipedes in this family feature a short head, stout antennae, mandibles with a series of pectinate lamellae, a slightly concave labral margin with a row of denticles or bristles, uniarticulate telopodites on the first maxillae, and claws on the second maxillae fringed by two rows of filaments.
• Species in the clade Linotaeniidae are characterized by a body that usually tapers toward the anterior tip; mandibles with a single pectinate lamella; second maxillae with coxo-sternite usually undivided and claws without projections; forcipular segment short, with tergite remarkably wide, forcipules evidently tapering; coxal organs opening through distinct pores on the ventral surface of the coxo-pleura.
• Bracts are 2 to 3 cm, long pectinate or once pinnatifid (segments gland-tipped, scarcely longer than width of rachis), rarely bipinnatifid, but the rachis at least 2 mm.
• This superfamily is characterized by an epipharynx with a bilobate border separating the clypeal and the labral parts, spines on the hypopharynx extending to most frontal and ventral parts, and mandibles with a single, pectinate lamella.
• It's characterized by a head longer than it is wide; first maxillae with palpus and inner process both conically pointed and each having typically 5 setae on its ventral face; smooth claws of the second maxillae; concave labrum; median division straight or slightly concave, bearing 5 long, basally dark teeth, and lateral division pectinate; syncoxite bearing a lappet on each side; coxae broadly united with no trace of a median suture; unarmed prosternum of poison claws with an absence of chitin lines and minute teeth at the base; and an absence of ventral pores.
• This species features elongate forcipules with denticles, sternal pores in a posterior transverse band, a single ventral pore on each coxopleuron, and ultimate legs without claws; the lateral parts of the labrum almost touch medially, and the mandibles appear to have more than one pectinate lamella.
• The discovery of Yumenerpeton is significant evidence for the presence of chroniosuchians being present as early as the Middle Permian in China, as well as displaying features such as pectinate scutes previously unknown to exist in bystrowianids.

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