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Definition of Parotoid
1. a. Resembling the parotid gland; -- applied especially to cutaneous glandular elevations above the ear in many toads and frogs.
Definition of Parotoid
1. Adjective. (anatomy) Resembling the parotid gland; applied especially to cutaneous glandular elevations above the ear in many toads and frogs. ¹
2. Noun. (anatomy) A parotoid gland. ¹
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Definition of Parotoid
1. a gland of certain toads and frogs [n -S]
Medical Definition of Parotoid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Parotoid
Literary usage of Parotoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Frog Book: North American Toads and Frogs, with a Study of the Habits by Mary Cynthia Dickerson (1906)
"Structure: parotoid glands relatively small and narrow. ... A third ridge on each
side passes backward from this point to the parotoid gland. (See Figs. ..."
2. Bulletin by United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution (1889)
"of an average specimen from South Carolina, 2 inches 10 lines; end of muzzle to
postorbital ridge, 0.2 lines ; of parotoid, 7 lines; fore limb, ..."
3. The Batrachia of North America by Edward Drinker Cope (1889)
"parotoid glands largo, long, spreading posteriorly, much wider than head ...
parotoid gland oval; metatarsal tubercles insignificant; a large gland on tibia ..."
4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1868)
"It differs in its very much smaller size, being one-eighth or tenth the bulk of
the latter, in its relatively smaller and narrower parotoid glands, ..."
5. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1869)
"cesses of sacral vertebra dilated ; parotoid glands present ; tongue free behind ;
digits not dilated, toes more or less webbed. ..."
6. Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio by Geological Survey of Ohio (1882)
"... generally with an internal vocal eao, which communicates with the mouth by
two orifices ; lateral cutaneous folds wanting; parotoid with distinct pores. ..."
7. Herpetology of Japan and Adjacent Territory by Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1907)
"6* No parotoid gland. c1 Tongue without posterior prolongations or "horns. ...
A large family having no maxillary teeth, a large parotoid gland behind the ..."
8. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1866)
"A fronto-parietal fontanelle. Ì a. Posterior digits free, opposable, two and three.
parotoid glands present ; tongue elongate, ..."
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