Lexic.us

Definition of Horny structure

1. Noun. Any rigid body structure composed primarily of keratin.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Horny Structure

Literary usage of Horny structure

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1844)
"The larger and coarser portion is constructed of grains of sand of various sizes, encysted separately in the substance of the horny structure, as described ..."

2. A Laboratory Course in Invertebrate Zoöloy by Hermon Carey Bumpus (1893)
"Turn it back, and note that it is stiffened by the presence of a horny structure. ... The horny structure, pen, will be found to extend the entire length. ..."

3. A Laboratory Course in Invertebrate Zoölogy by Hermon Carey Bumpus (1892)
"Turn it back, and note that it is stiffened by the presence of a horny structure. Open the animal along the mid-dorsal line. . The horny structure, pen, ..."

4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Henry Vandyke Carter, Luther Holden (1878)
"The cuticle and horny structure of the nail (both epidermic structures) are thus directly continuous with each other. The nails, in structure, ..."

5. The Microscopic anatomy of the human body, in health and disease ... v.2 by Arthur Hill Hassall (1855)
"... one proper to them, the horny structure, and the other the cuticular one; and also, that their matrix possesses one set of vessels expressly for the ..."

6. The Development of the Chick: An Introduction to Embryology by Frank Rattray Lillie (1908)
"The latter is, however, as we have seen, a horny structure, and therefore not a tooth morphologically. Rose therefore proposes the term ..."

7. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"... expansions of the true horny structure of the shaft; something of the kind is seen in the Bohemian chatterer or wax-wing ..."

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