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This could be a new rudiment, piece of music, or exercise.
The impressions look such as would be made by a rudely-shaped human hand, with short fingers held much apart; there is some appearance as if the fingers had had nails; and a protuberance like the rudiment of a sixth finger appears at the side.— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852
But both von Baer and Rathke[207] held that the upper jaw developed as a special process independent of the lower jaw rudiment, and the actual proof that the upper jaw is a derivative of the first visceral arch seems to have been first supplied by Reichert.— Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
He finds that in all cases a pentadactylate rudiment is formed, even in those forms in which only a few of the elements of the hand or foot come to full development.— Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

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