Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ichthyology, the caudal fin.
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The length of the shark was 8.90 m. from the mouth to the _pinna caudalis_ extremity, the greatest circumference 6.50 m., and
Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 Various
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Under the vertebral column we see the hindmost ends of the two large blood-vessels of the tail, the principal artery (aorta caudalis or arteria sacralis media, Ao), and the principal vein (vena caudalis or sacralis media).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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The pars dorsomedialis is separated from oralis by a lamella of myelinated fibers and the cell density of these two parts is higher than in pars caudalis.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Satoru Onodera et al. 2009
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Cutis moliiffma, fqitamis minutis arSiifJime adttatis vefitaf pinnae omnes maculatae, caudalis cuneata. nebulo - 12 - G. pinnac dorfabs primae fus. radio fecundo iilo mem - brana duplo longiore ni - gro terminato.
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Bfandiiarum operculum poperiiist? iarghie hidentatunt; Hnca Cateraiis dorfo propior non paraUela; piiinac ex cinereo fttjcne, peciorales ovatne, ventrdles acuniiiiutae; analis r. €i doifhlis pone rotiindatae; caudalis hrevis f flavefcens, biloba, fuacula fuperne nigra unicornis.
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[41] and it was described as consisting of three subnuclei: pars oralis, pars dorsomedialis and pars caudalis.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Satoru Onodera et al. 2009
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a niuha ad wedium caudae exci&rens; pinhae peBorales et ventrales in actimen de/Inentcs; dorfaiis altera et ana 'lis medio humiiiores, caudalis einerea truncata.
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Cz [M\t deprejjufn; oculi magni, approximnfi; mandibulac edeutulae; brnnchiarum opercula pone bifpinofa y pinnae tx albo nigrequevariae y caudalis rotundata.
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