| 单词 | nictitate |
| 例句 | When the rain blurred her eyes, she cleared them by flashing her nictitating membranes like windshield wipers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z They shook, cleared water from their eyes with their nictitating membranes, and listened to the thunder boom. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z A nictitating membrane lowered itself over her eyes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He heard the eyases chittering, saw Frightful sitting erect on her stub, and let his nictitating membranes slip across each eye. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The patterns and colors of the creature's fins, shell and wrinkled neck are exquisitely rendered, as is the dull sheen of its left eye's nictitating membrane. Creatures with a purpose: the heightened 'naturalism' of Skagit Valley painter Robert McCauley 2010-12-30T20:48:04Z Separately, the sclera, the eye’s outer layer, would most closely resemble those of horses and cows and include a nictitating membrane, the built-in goggles that make it possible to see underwater. Creating the Exiled Sea Creature of ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z In her 2018 special “Elder Millennial,” she references a nictitating membrane, the translucent inner eyelid typically found in reptiles and birds. How Iliza Shlesinger’s sharp humor about womanhood cuts through the pages of 'All Things Aside' 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z The eye is provided with a nictitating membrane or third eyelid, at the base of which open the ducts of the Harderian gland. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Haw, haw, n. the nictitating membrane or third eyelid, as of a horse; also a disease of this membrane. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z Another typical vestigial structure is the plica semi-lunaris, the remnant of the nictitating membrane characteristic of nearly the whole vertebrate sub-kingdom. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 2011-07-17T02:00:36.813Z In connexion with the nictitating membrane the Harderian gland is developed, while the lachrymal gland secretes fluid for the other eyelids to spread over the conjunctiva. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z All birds have, like most reptiles, a well-developed third lid or “nictitating membrane,” which moves from the inner canthus obliquely upwards and backwards over the cornea. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z The eyes have a nictitating membrane, the nose is prominent and mobile, and the tail very short. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis The power of hearing is acute, and so is the sight, the eyes being protected by upper and lower lids and by a nictitating membrane. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" For a few examples: The little fold of caruncle at the inner margin of the eye in man, represents the nictitating membrane of birds. Was Man Created? The nictitating membrane or third eyelid is well-developed in amphibians, reptiles, birds and some few sharks; it is less marked in mammals, and in Man is only represented by the little plica semilunaris. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z This arises from the nasal surface of the ball, and its tendon passes into the somewhat imperfectly transparent nictitating membrane. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z As a matter of fact, the third, or nictitating membrane, which the humans of Submundia possessed, in common with birds, had been burned away. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 There is every reason to believe that this is the rudiment of a membrane which is fully developed in many animals, and is especially useful to birds, the nictitating membrane, or third eyelid. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Illustrations of the nictitating membrane in various animals named 75 11. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions The nictitating membrane was drawn over its eyes. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness In addition to the upper and lower eyelids of the human subject, the rabbit has a third, the nictitating lid, in the anterior corner of the eye. Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata Organs which are rudimentary, such as the clavicles in the ostrich and the nictitating membrane in man, bear witness to the unity of plan. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology The frog, when it first sees a moving object, usually draws the nictitating membrane over the eye two or three times as if to clear the surface for clearer vision. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. A specimen which I preserved in spirits was in this state; Mr. Reid considers it to be the effect of inflammation in the nictitating membrane. The Voyage of the Beagle Then she would force herself into a state of quiet, hand on bundle, nictitating, as it were—eyes opening, eyes closing. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Mrs. Becker frankly yawned through them, nictitating, as it were, during the long narrative passages of the symphony or occupied with the personnel of the audience. Star-Dust Without visible injury, the heart, after beating excessively violently, almost as rapidly slows, the nictitating membrane is drawn over the eyes, the head falls to one side, and the bird becomes lifeless from nervous exhaustion. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies The eagle has what is really a third eyelid, a thin translucent membrane, which naturalists call the nictitating, or winking, membrane. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 The moment after, the eye itself confirmed this—the nictitating membrane was rapidly drawn over it, and as rapidly removed. The Open Air The apes and man have also lost the Harderian gland that opened under the nictitating membrane; we find this in the rest of the mammals, and the birds, reptiles, and amphibia. The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Muller, J., on the nictitating membrane and semilunar fold. The Descent of Man One which I kept alive was certainly in this condition, the cause, as appeared on dissection, having been inflammation of the nictitating membrane. The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition Walrus, development of the nictitating membrane in the; tusks of the; use of the tusks by the. The Descent of Man Monotremata, development of the nictitating membrane in; lactiferous glands of; connecting mammals with reptiles. The Descent of Man |
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