Crossword-Solution: CAUDATE 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Still awfuller is it to see it rise and reach with those prehensile members, as with the tails of a multi-caudate ape, some rocky projection of its walls and lurk fearsomely into the hollow, and vanish there in a loathly quiescence.

The liver is characterized by the great size of the left lateral lobe, which occasionally equals half that of the whole organ; the right and left lateral fissures are usually very deep; in Megachiroptera the spigelian lobe is, with one exception, ill defined or absent, and the caudate is generally large; but in Microchiroptera the former lobe is large, while the caudate is small.

The bony palate is continued behind the last molar, narrowing slowly backwards; there are three phalanges in the index finger, the third phalange being terminated generally by a claw; the sides of the ear form a ring at the base; the tail, when present, is inferior to (not contained in) the interfemoral membrane; the pyloric extremity of the stomach is generally much elongated; and the spigelian lobe of the liver is ill-defined or absent, while the caudate is well developed.

Internal to the lenticular nucleus, and between it and the caudate nucleus in front and the thalamus behind, is the _internal capsule_, through which run most of the fibres connecting the cerebral cortex with the crus cerebri.

The cerebral hemispheres are also large, owing chiefly to the great size of the _corpora striata_, which already show a differentiation into caudate nucleus, putamen and globus pallidus.