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Spicule is a term used in biology to describe a small, needle-like structure or formation found in various organisms
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Bone spicules were embedded in the bullet path.
They have a fragile skeleton of stiff spicules.
In ontogeny the first spicules to be secreted are diactines.
Direct and detailed observation of solar spicules.
The spicules forming the skeleton of many sponges.
It is about ten times as much as in natural spicules.
The spicules are equiradiate and equiangular.
The sclerocytes are responsible for the secretion of spicules.
The only spicules present in this species are triactines.
They contain a matrix composed of proteins and spicules.
Each of the spicules is a single crystal of mineral calcite.
The body is stiff and protected by small spicules.
Spicules are irregularly oriented in a felted arrangement.
This genus is characterized by a high density of siliceous spicules.
The spicules continue to grow extracellularly in the tunic.
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The males possess asymmetrical spicules.
Spicules are known to reinforce the mesohyl.
Triactines are the most numerous spicules.
Spicules in the penis of a male cat.
Triactines are the most abundant spicules.
The spicules are very bright and can easily be seen.
The skeleton is made up of spongin fibres without spicules.
The sclerocytes produce spicules via formation of a cellular triad.
The skeleton of sponges consists of microscopic calcareous or silicious spicules.
Megascleres are large spicules that form the main skeleton.
The skeleton is composed of many calcareous ossicles and spicules.
It is covered by calcareous spicules in the form of tablets and buttons.
Males in reproductive state have the dorsum covered by spicules.
These spicules are very small.
The interstices show extremely fine and regular spicules.
Are these little spicules coming up.
Here we will focus on the optical properties of these spicules.
The spicules in the male clearly distinguish males from females.
Your dentist can quickly remove spicules with tweezers.
Spicules are needle like structures which form the mineral skeleton.
The axial symmetry of sponge spicules and its phylogenetic significance.
The skeletons are made up of either ten diametric or twenty radial spicules.
Siliceous spicules come in two sizes called megascleres and microscleres.
Sediments with high concentrations of spicules form the spongilite deposits.
These spicules have the shape of a globular mass at the tip of a rod.
He discovered solar spicules.
This sponge has neither spicules nor spongin fibres in its tissues.
Integument with spicules.
Males have paired spicules but the gubernaculum and bursa are absent.
Males have spicules.
The tissues of this tunicate are strengthened by the presence of two types of spicules.
A few fragments of the spicules of sponges and a few frustules of diatoms may be present.
The saline solution is incorporated between the submicron size ice spicules.
The skeleton consists of spicules that form a protective cup around each polyp.
The tube feet are tipped with suckers and do not have any spicules.
