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Cranial kinesis, the Glossary

Index Cranial kinesis

Cranial kinesis is the term for significant movement of skull bones relative to each other in addition to movement at the joint between the upper and lower jaws.[1]

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  1. 70 relations: Actinopterygii, Agamidae, Agkistrodon piscivorus, Amphisbaenia, Ankylosauria, Aquatic feeding mechanisms, Banded water snake, Bar-tailed godwit, Bird, British Birds (magazine), Buccal space, Caecilian, Carnotaurus, Ceratopsia, Chameleon, Chondrichthyes, Coelophysis, Common snipe, Crane (bird), Crocodilia, Dromaeosaurus, Eurasian oystercatcher, Fetus, Guillotine, Hare, Hinge, Hummingbird, Hyomandibula, Hypsilophodon, Least sandpiper, Lissamphibia, Long-billed curlew, Mammal, Marbled godwit, Massospondylus, Neurocranium, Ornithopoda, Ovenbird (family), Palate, Parietal bone, Parrot, Pectoral sandpiper, Pharyngeal arch, Phrynosomatidae, Premaxilla, Quadrate bone, Reptile, Salamander, Sarcopterygii, Sauropoda, ... Expand index (20 more) »

  2. Musculoskeletal system

Actinopterygii

Actinopterygii, members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species.

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Agamidae

Agamidae is a family of over 550 species of iguanian lizards indigenous to Africa, Asia, Australia, and a few in Southern Europe.

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Agkistrodon piscivorus

Agkistrodon piscivorus is a species of venomous snake, a pit viper in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae.

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Amphisbaenia

Amphisbaenia (called amphisbaenians or worm lizards) is a group of typically legless lizards, comprising over 200 extant species.

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Ankylosauria

Ankylosauria is a group of herbivorous dinosaurs of the clade Ornithischia.

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Aquatic feeding mechanisms

Aquatic feeding mechanisms face a special difficulty as compared to feeding on land, because the density of water is about the same as that of the prey, so the prey tends to be pushed away when the mouth is closed.

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Banded water snake

The banded water snake or southern water snake (Nerodia fasciata) is a species of mostly aquatic, nonvenomous, colubrid snakes most commonly found in the Midwest, Southeastern United States.

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Bar-tailed godwit

The bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica) is a large and strongly migratory wader in the family Scolopacidae, which feeds on bristle-worms and shellfish on coastal mudflats and estuaries.

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Bird

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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British Birds (magazine)

British Birds is a monthly ornithology magazine that was established in 1907.

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Buccal space

The buccal space (also termed the buccinator space) is a fascial space of the head and neck (sometimes also termed fascial tissue spaces or tissue spaces).

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Caecilian

Caecilians (blind ones) are a group of limbless, vermiform (worm-shaped) or serpentine (snake-shaped) amphibians with small or sometimes nonexistent eyes.

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Carnotaurus

Carnotaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in South America during the Late Cretaceous period, probably sometime between 72 and 69 million years ago.

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Ceratopsia

Ceratopsia or Ceratopia (or; Greek: "horned faces") is a group of herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs that thrived in what are now North America, Europe, and Asia, during the Cretaceous Period, although ancestral forms lived earlier, in the Jurassic.

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Chameleon

Chameleons or chamaeleons (family Chamaeleonidae) are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of Old World lizards with 200 species described as of June 2015.

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Chondrichthyes

Chondrichthyes is a class of jawed fish that contains the cartilaginous fish or chondrichthyans, which all have skeletons primarily composed of cartilage.

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Coelophysis

Coelophysis (traditionally; or, as heard more commonly in recent decades) is a genus of coelophysid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 215 to 208.5 million years ago during the Late Triassic period from the middle to late Norian age in what is now the southwestern United States.

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Common snipe

The common snipe (Gallinago gallinago) is a small, stocky wader native to the Old World.

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Crane (bird)

Cranes are a type of large bird with long legs and necks in the biological family Gruidae of the order Gruiformes.

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Crocodilia

Crocodilia (or Crocodylia, both) is an order of semiaquatic, predatory reptiles known as crocodilians.

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Dromaeosaurus

Dromaeosaurus is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period (middle late Campanian and Maastrichtian), sometime between 80 and 69 million years ago, in Alberta, Canada and the western United States.

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Eurasian oystercatcher

The Eurasian oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus) also known as the common pied oystercatcher, or (in Europe) just oystercatcher, is a wader in the oystercatcher bird family Haematopodidae.

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Fetus

A fetus or foetus (fetuses, foetuses, rarely feti or foeti) is the unborn offspring that develops from a mammal embryo.

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Guillotine

A guillotine is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading.

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Hare

Hares and jackrabbits are mammals belonging to the genus Lepus.

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Hinge

A hinge is a mechanical bearing that connects two solid objects, typically allowing only a limited angle of rotation between them.

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Hummingbird

Hummingbirds are birds native to the Americas and comprise the biological family Trochilidae.

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Hyomandibula

The hyomandibula, commonly referred to as hyomandibular (os hyomandibulare, from hyoeides, "upsilon-shaped" (υ), and Latin: mandibula, "jawbone"), is a set of bones that is found in the hyoid region in most fishes.

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Hypsilophodon

Hypsilophodon (meaning "high-crested tooth") is a neornithischian dinosaur genus from the Early Cretaceous period of England.

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Least sandpiper

The least sandpiper (Calidris minutilla) is the smallest shorebird.

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Lissamphibia

The Lissamphibia (from Greek λισσός (lissós, "smooth") + ἀμφίβια (amphíbia), meaning "smooth amphibians") is a group of tetrapods that includes all modern amphibians.

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Long-billed curlew

The long-billed curlew (Numenius americanus) is a large North American shorebird of the family Scolopacidae.

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Mammal

A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.

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Marbled godwit

The marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa) is a large migratory shorebird in the family Scolopacidae.

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Massospondylus

Massospondylus (from Greek, μάσσων (massōn, "longer") and σπόνδυλος (spondylos, "vertebra")) was a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic (Hettangian to Pliensbachian ages, ca. 200–183 million years ago).

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Neurocranium

In human anatomy, the neurocranium, also known as the braincase, brainpan, or brain-pan, is the upper and back part of the skull, which forms a protective case around the brain.

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Ornithopoda

Ornithopoda is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs, called ornithopods.

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Ovenbird (family)

Ovenbirds or furnariids are a large family of small suboscine passerine birds found from Mexico and Central to southern South America.

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Palate

The palate is the roof of the mouth in humans and other mammals.

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Parietal bone

The parietal bones are two bones in the skull which, when joined at a fibrous joint known as a cranial suture, form the sides and roof of the neurocranium. Cranial kinesis and parietal bone are skull.

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Parrot

Parrots (Psittaciformes), also known as psittacines, are birds with a strong curved beak, upright stance, and clawed feet.

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Pectoral sandpiper

The pectoral sandpiper (Calidris melanotos) is a small, migratory wader that breeds in North America and Asia, wintering in South America and Oceania.

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Pharyngeal arch

The pharyngeal arches, also known as visceral arches, are structures seen in the embryonic development of vertebrates that are recognisable precursors for many structures.

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Phrynosomatidae

The Phrynosomatidae are a diverse family of lizards, sometimes classified as a subfamily (Phrynosomatinae), found from Panama to the extreme south of Canada.

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Premaxilla

The premaxilla (or praemaxilla) is one of a pair of small cranial bones at the very tip of the upper jaw of many animals, usually, but not always, bearing teeth.

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Quadrate bone

The quadrate bone is a skull bone in most tetrapods, including amphibians, sauropsids (reptiles, birds), and early synapsids. Cranial kinesis and quadrate bone are skull.

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Reptile

Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with usually an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development.

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Salamander

Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by their lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults.

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Sarcopterygii

Sarcopterygii — sometimes considered synonymous with Crossopterygii — is a clade (traditionally a class or subclass) including both a group of bony fish commonly referred to as lobe-finned fish, and tetrapods.

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Sauropoda

Sauropoda, whose members are known as sauropods (from sauro- + -pod, 'lizard-footed'), is a clade of saurischian ('lizard-hipped') dinosaurs.

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Secondary palate

The secondary palate is an anatomical structure that divides the nasal cavity from the oral cavity in many vertebrates.

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Semipalmated sandpiper

The semipalmated sandpiper (Calidris pusilla) is a very small shorebird.

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Shark

Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head.

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Short-billed dowitcher

The short-billed dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus), like its congener the long-billed dowitcher, is a medium-sized, stocky, long-billed shorebird in the family Scolopacidae.

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Shuvuuia

Shuvuuia is a genus of bird-like theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period of Mongolia.

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Skull

The skull is a bone protective cavity for the brain.

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Snake

Snakes are elongated, limbless reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.

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Snake skeleton

A snake skeleton consists primarily of the skull, vertebrae, and ribs, with only vestigial remnants of the limbs.

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Squamosal bone

The squamosal is a skull bone found in most reptiles, amphibians, and birds. Cranial kinesis and squamosal bone are skull.

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Suture (anatomy)

In anatomy, a suture is a fairly rigid joint between two or more hard elements of an organism, with or without significant overlap of the elements.

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Swift (bird)

The swifts are a family, Apodidae, of highly aerial birds.

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Symphysis

A symphysis (symphyses) is a fibrocartilaginous fusion between two bones.

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Syndesmosis

A syndesmosis (“fastened with a band”) is a type of fibrous joint in which two parallel bones are united to each other by fibrous connective tissue.

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Synovial joint

A synovial joint, also known as diarthrosis, joins bones or cartilage with a fibrous joint capsule that is continuous with the periosteum of the joined bones, constitutes the outer boundary of a synovial cavity, and surrounds the bones' articulating surfaces.

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Teleost

Teleostei (Greek teleios "complete" + osteon "bone"), members of which are known as teleosts, is, by far, the largest infraclass in the class Actinopterygii, the ray-finned fishes, and contains 96% of all extant species of fish.

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Tetrapod

A tetrapod is any four-limbed vertebrate animal of the superclass Tetrapoda.

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Tuatara

The tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) is a species of reptile endemic to New Zealand.

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Turtle

Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines, characterized by a special shell developed mainly from their ribs.

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Wader

A flock of Dunlins and Red knots Waders or shorebirds are birds of the order Charadriiformes commonly found wading along shorelines and mudflats in order to forage for food crawling or burrowing in the mud and sand, usually small arthropods such as aquatic insects or crustaceans.

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Yawn

A yawn is a reflex in vertebrate animals characterized by a long inspiratory phase with gradual mouth gaping, followed by a brief climax (or acme) with muscle stretching, and a rapid expiratory phase with muscle relaxation, which typically lasts a few seconds.

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See also

Musculoskeletal system

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranial_kinesis

Also known as Intracranial immobility, Mesokinesis, Pleurokinesis, Prokinensis, Prokinesis, Rhynchokinesis, Rhynchokinetic, Streptostyly.

, Secondary palate, Semipalmated sandpiper, Shark, Short-billed dowitcher, Shuvuuia, Skull, Snake, Snake skeleton, Squamosal bone, Suture (anatomy), Swift (bird), Symphysis, Syndesmosis, Synovial joint, Teleost, Tetrapod, Tuatara, Turtle, Wader, Yawn.