vermiform

If they are in the bowels of the island, then this must be the vermiform appendix or something.

It seemed to us that Cambridge was in the order of things, for all the world like having eyebrows or a vermiform appendix.

Feet are as useless as vermiform appendices in free- fall.

The male is vermiform and transparent and measures 40 by 1300 micrometres.

Schwartz has a vermiform appendix, three and a half inches long, and it's' open.

The body forms of Cobitidae tend to be vermiform - worm-shaped, long and thin.

Serena let her fingertips brush over the vermiform contours of the Cogitor's mind.

All life stages are vermiform and migratory.

The mature sexual parasites are vermiform and immobile.

A well known example is the vermiform appendix, a small, blind section of the gut in humans and a number of other mammals.

"Do you realize," said Shekt in feeble wonder, "that he has a vermiform appendix, which is, three and a half inches long?

In Amyand's hernia, the content of the hernial sac is the vermiform appendix.

Afterward, we lay in a pleasantly vermiform tangle, the only light in the room a faint glow from the banked hearth.

Often these tubular stalactites will acquire a twisted, vermiform appearance as bits of lava crystallize and force the flow in different directions.

Both Euarchontoglires and Diprotodont Marsupials are documented to possess a vermiform appendix, although this evolved as a result of convergence.

On locating its host it undergoes ecdysis, changing its skin and adopting a scarabaeiform (grublike) or vermiform (maggotlike) morphology.

The term itself derives from the Latin 'vermis', meaning worm, and originally had reference to the vermiform larvae of certain insects, many of which infest foodstuffs.

The basic propagative lifecycle of the PWN is typical of most nematode species, having four vermiform juvenile stages (J1-J4), followed by an amphimictic (male and female) adult stage.

The appendix (or vermiform appendix; also cecal [or caecal] appendix; also vermix) is a blind-ended tube connected to the cecum, from which it develops embryologically.

It is a general rule that any adaptations which are no longer useful either become vestigial organs (see vermiform appendix), or may be selected and adapted to other functions (see ear ossicles).

The texture should not be confused with myrmekite or granophyre, in which quartz forms club-shaped, curved or vermiform threads intergrown with plagioclase feldspar and alkali feldspar, respectively.

When the larvae hatch, they pass through a number of ciliated, spherical and hemispherical developmental stages before becoming vermiform juveniles and developing the proboscis, collar and trunk of the adult.

The vermiform towers of a city-sloping, curved, and ridged shapes that resembled the intricacies of seashells-stood beyond the mountains, and thousands of Daufin's tribe moved in currents above their walls.

Modern humans may be evolving towards never having wisdom teeth, and already have lost most of the tail found in many other mammals - not to mention other vestigial structures, such as the vermiform appendix or the nictitating membrane.