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  • She looked like she just couldn't decide who she wanted to be today, and the effect was very odd, especially with the pouch-like purse sticking out the bottom of the jacket.

    Monday Meanderings kittenpie 2009

  • She looked like she just couldn't decide who she wanted to be today, and the effect was very odd, especially with the pouch-like purse sticking out the bottom of the jacket.

    Archive 2009-03-01 kittenpie 2009

  • In icy locations like Antarctica, penguins forgo nests and rest the egg on top of their feet, below a pouch-like fold of abdominal skin: this enables the penguins to transfer body heat to the egg.

    Penguins 2010

  • Because of this pouch-like structure, Mysis is sometimes called the opossum shrimp.

    Crustacea 2008

  • Red hair and pale skin humans do not tan easily because of a peculiarity in a tiny pouch-like receptor, called MC1R, on the surface of melanocytes.

    Real Sun Tan Without the Danger | Impact Lab 2006

  • The item to be moved is “packed” into a pouch-like vesicle covered with thousands of molecular motor proteins.

    THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001

  • The item to be moved is “packed” into a pouch-like vesicle covered with thousands of molecular motor proteins.

    THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001

  • The inner surfaces of many of the veins are supplied with pouch-like folds, or pockets, which act as valves to impede the backward flow of the blood, while they do not obstruct blood flowing forward toward the heart.

    A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

  • Tornaria (the larva of Balanoglossus) a similar formation of body-cavities by pouch-like outgrowths of the archenteron took place.

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

  • _The cæcum_ is the pouch-like dilatation of the large intestine which receives the lower end of the small intestine.

    Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters

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