muscle attachment , auch: muscle insertion

However, the bones show large areas for muscle attachment, indicating considerable strength.

The dentary is long and delicate, lacking significant muscle attachment points.

A small man, no more than five foot seven, but powerfully built, with well-developed muscle attachments.

The mentum is often ill-defined and has few muscle attachments.

The nasal passage was reduced with heavy muscle attachments for some unknown purpose.

The posterior margin lacks the heavy neck muscle attachment seen in that group.

This is unpredictable and mostly related to local anatomic factors such as muscle attachments.

The muscle attachments were still on the face, and we photographed and sketched those.

I saw at once by the larger muscle attachments on the right side of the vertebrae that she was right-handed.

There was a ridge along the back of the skull roof for muscle attachment, as is also seen in tyrannosaurids.

The space between the two sides of the jawbone should be wide, with room for the larynx and muscle attachments.

A small depression serves for eye muscle attachment ventral to the eyestalk area.

It is often a muscle attachment site.

The absence of certain muscle attachment points on the shoulder also indicated that the amphibian had no gills.

They have a large sagittal crest, a bone running along the middle of the skull that is necessary for muscle attachment.

The gracile form includes specimens that are more slender and have less pronounced muscle attachments.

There was one backward facing cheek spike, but its function is debated; it may have been for muscle attachment.

These spines also provided muscle attachment points.

"Flesh still adheres, tendons and muscle attachments are there."

Bennett (1992) agreed with Eaton's own assessment that the crest was too large and variable to have been a muscle attachment site.

The vertebrae have projections that allow for strong muscle attachment enabling locomotion without limbs.

Their bones demonstrate the effects of poor nutrition, as evidenced by unusual depressions at muscle attachment sites.

The vertebral processes can either give the structure rigidity, help them articulate with ribs, or serve as muscle attachment points.

This has been put forward by other authors over the years, but later studies do not find evidence of large muscle attachments on the frill bones.

The structure of the skull shows increases in the areas of muscle attachment and suggests larger vertebral dimensions.