Crossword-Solution: CRANIATE
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CRANIATE | anagram | CARINATE, NEARTICA |
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| Having a skull | 1 answer |
| Type of animal. | 1 answer |
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Front part of the eye
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NRECAO
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with CRANIATE (5)
Draw diagrams, with the parts named, of the alimentary canal of (a) amphioxus, (b) any craniate; (c) indicate very shortly the principal structural differences between the two.
The exact significance of these roots is a matter for speculation, but it seems possible that they are epiphysial structures remotely comparable with the epiphysial (pineal) complex of the craniate vertebrates.
From serving primitively as the essential organ of the cleft the tongue-bar may have undergone reduction and modification, becoming a secondary bar in _Amphioxus_, subordinate to the primary bars in size, vascularity and development; finally, in the craniate vertebrates it would then have completed its involution, the suggestion having been made that the tongue-bars are represented by the thymus-primordia.
The ascidian eye, however, differs, as Osborn[205] remarks, essentially from the paired eyes of the craniate (skulled) vertebrates in that the lens as well as the retina is derived from the wall of the brain.
The otocyst or auditory organ is unique amongst craniate vertebrates in regard to the semicircular canals.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1966–2022).